quoting rikona's missive of Tuesday 27 May 2003 08:02 pm: > Hello Dennis, > > Tuesday, May 27, 2003, 6:36:31 PM, you wrote: > > DM> I'm not sure what happened but you can try hittine ctl-alt-F6 and > DM> that should take you to a console screen where you can type > DM> "reboot". There is probably a more elegant way to recover, so > DM> anyone who knows jump right in here. HTH > > Thank you!!!! [recovering from typical newbie panic] :-)) > > Elegant or not, it worked OK. It rebooted to the previous state, not > where I was at the 'oops'. Lost some work, I guess, but no disaster.
Hi; Here's one brief 'n' basic quickie type reference to keyboard shortcuts. http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/shortcuts.html The Linux Newbie Administrator's Guide offers more under the 5.1 heading. Just scroll down from the linked page; http://linux-newbie.sunsite.dk/lnag_commands.html and a brief list from Red Hat docs: http://linuxwww.epfl.ch/Doc/rh-9/rhl-gsg-en-9/keyboard-shortcuts.html That should get you started; but if you really want to suffer information overload, open a terminal su (type su then type your root password) then type urpmi rute and hit enter. If you have a contrib source set up you'll get a _very_ complete documentation project installed, but bring a lunch when you click the new "Howtos English" (or whatever installed your language is) in the documentation menu. You'll be there a *looooonnnggggg time.* <g> Have fun. Charlie -- Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake 9.1 Bamboo (cooked) 08:40:35 up 15 days, 43 min, 2 users, load average: 0.17, 0.16, 0.11 First Law of Procrastination: Procrastination shortens the job and places the responsibility for its termination on someone else (i.e., the authority who imposed the deadline). Fifth Law of Procrastination: Procrastination avoids boredom; one never has the feeling that there is nothing important to do.
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