How to switch from X to console (ctrl+alt+Fn)

2001-12-06 Thread Carlos Betancourt
I have installed Potato in an old SparcStation IPC and everything works fine. However I'm unable to switch back to the console, as is normal in PC machines. I mean, I don't want to kill X; I want to use the ctrl+alt+Fn functionality. Is it possible to do it? TIA Carlos

RE: Xwindows GUI

2001-11-11 Thread Carlos Betancourt
On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 01:25, 57j wrote: > Any other suggestions? > > > > I just installed Debian and made the mistake of turning on the > > Xwindows GUI > > > login. How do I turn that off and startup with the text prompt? > > > > Look for something like '/etc/init.d/[gxk]dm' and then just move it

Re: newbie- need help burning 6 woody.raw's to 6 cd's

2001-11-11 Thread Carlos Betancourt
On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 00:35, Suleyman wrote: > Hello All > I am new to Debian. > I am trying to install woody. I downloaded the 6 cd's for woody with > .raw at the end. They are in fact iso images. The .raw is just to indicate that they are a raw CD copy, or disk dump. You can even 'mount' them as