[Sussex] Argos Catalogue surprise

[Colin Tuckley]

Steven Dobson wrote:


> I burnt the new graphical netinstaller ISO for Debian (sid).  This
> worked just fine and I got my graphical desktop back.  But I found out
> during the install that Ctrl-Alt-F2 did not get me a command line prompt
> like the old (non-graphical) Debian installer.  Neither did Ctrl-Alt-F3
> get me the live log of the install.

Just one point - the fact that Ctrl-Alt-F<n> doesn't switch you back to a
virtual console is nothing to do with the graphical installer. It was a
decision made by the Linux *kernel* hackers (nothing to do with Debian) that
this facility should be removed on security grounds.

You can put it back, but it needs a kernel rebuild.

regards,

Colin

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