On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:02:00 +0200, go...@dobosevic.com wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote: >> I just downloaded and burned a new Debian testing netinstall CD last >> week, and used it to install testing. >> >> Everything went well, but after installation, when I tried using >> ctrl-alt- F1 to switch to a virual console, nothing happened. >> >> How do I go about getting such a console? I can get a root command >> window, but if I end up upgrading X sometime, that doesn't seem the >> best place to be controlling the upgrade from. >> >> -- hendrik >> >> > Ctrl+Alt+F1 works on my up-to-date Squeeze KDE. I just tried. You can > always chose "Your Kernel version Singleuser" in grub. Or you can switch > to console (session manager or something like that at the bottom of > display) before entering your user name and password. Hope that will > help you.
Upgrading doesn't necessarily give the same results as a new installation, in my experience. Sometimes upgrading will give you a new way of doing the same thing, whereas installing will give you a new thing instead. Or sometimes the configuration defaults change, but upgrade doesn't mess with old configurations. I find myself wondering if there's some setting (about the availability of ctrl-alt-F1) that has a different default value, and I have to find it and change it. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
