On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Bob Proulx
<bob@proulx.com> wrote:
John Foster wrote:
> I recently had to do a new installation of squeeze on a production server.
Excellent!
> Its been a LONG time since I did that and I see a few things are different
> since my last time. I can not access the consoles by hitting ctrl,alt,
> delete.
You mean Control-Alt-F1 instead. Or Control-Alt-F2 and similar for
other function keys.
After dropping to the console then you don't need to use control
anymore. Originally on the console it was only Alt-F1, Alt-F2, and
Alt-Left and Alt-Right to shift between virtual consoles. Recently
because so many people have finger memory from X that the Control
modifier was also added as additional key shortcuts.
You installed X Windows on your server? Is that wise? If it is a
server does it need to run X11 at all? I wouldn't think so and don't
run it on any of my servers.
Bob