*- On 6 Aug, Samuel R. Scarano wrote about "Re: backspace character does not exists in xterm," > [snip] >>> leaving me with a completely unusable system. Fortunately I'm just >>> using this system to learn with so I didn't mind having to completely >>> re-install from scratch to get around this. A rather drastic solution >>> though. > [snip] >> Ouch!! How do you boot into linux? There are several ways to avoid >> a reinstall. One way to fix this is to boot into single user mode(which > > That, too, is overkill. Just press Ctrl-Alt-F1 to switch to a virtual > console where getty is waiting to log you in. >
Read his post again. He said he couldn't find the correct keys with the keymap all out of wack to switch to a console. *- On 6 Aug, Lee Elliott wrote about "Re: backspace character does not exists in xterm," > the keyboard. I couldn't find the right combination to get to a > console and as xdm was installed, the system went straight into X -- Brian --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis ---------------------------------------------------------------------
