On October 24, 2002 06:35 pm, Joe Harkins wrote: > At 06:05 PM 10/24/2002 -0700, you wrote: > >You can do all of it from the login prompt. When you have the prompt, > >login as > >root. Keep in mind that you don't have X so you're automatically in > > console . > > here's what I get: > > localhost login: root > password: (pw entered) > > [root@localhost root]# > > (long list of lines, none of which mention hard drives, cd, burner or at > least nothing that I recognize as such) followed by: > > [root@localhost root]# dmesg (enter) > > -bash: df-t: command not found > > [root@localhost root]# > > By the way, please tell me how to shut down from the root or local prompt > without turning off the machine. I've tried "quit", "exit", "q" and a whole > bunch of familiar shutdown hoepfuls, none of which work. > > Anyway, as you can see, I'm either not understanding what you are > suggesting and not following your advice correctly or something else is > happening that isn't supposed to. > > Thanks Alt/Ctrl Backspace should get you back to login. While in root, try startx
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