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From: William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 2006.0 Install
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 14:11:48
Message-Id: 1142085999.9062.5.camel@rattus
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] 2006.0 Install by Ash Varma
1 Using the graphical for the first time in a qemu VM ... very spiffy and
2 I like it so far! goodbye console installs - I have (not) fond
3 memories!
4
5 Only prob Ive got is CTRL-ALT-F1 takes me to the host console, not the
6 liveCD console in the VM, but this is probably a qemu thing. Easy
7 enough to run an xterm anyway!
8
9 BillK
10
11 On Sat, 2006-03-11 at 23:49 +1300, Ash Varma wrote:
12 > On Sat, 2006-03-11 at 23:41 +1300, Thomas Kear wrote:
13 > > The livecd works just like any linux install with X; hit
14 > > control+alt+F1(/F2/F3/F4/F5/F6) and it will happily drop you to a
15 > > terminal.
16 > >
17 > > Alternatively you can open an xterm or similar and use a graphical web
18 > > browser to view the handbook rather than links.
19 > >
20 > Perfect..
21 > Just what I wanted to hear..
22 > I was hearing about the graphical installer.. (and was not paying it
23 > too much attention.. till I thought of the graphical installer ALA
24 > Fedora, etc...)
25 >
26 > But this is just what I wanted.. Thanks :)
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