[497] in athena10
Re: Suggested amendments to the Athena10 docs.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Tue Sep 16 16:52:02 2008
Message-Id: <200809162050.m8GKo2kH010203@speaker-for-the-dead.mit.edu>
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: William Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
cc: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>, athena10@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:27:10 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:50:01 -0400
> By the way, step #4 does not work under VMware on a Red Hat system,
> because ctrl-alt-f1 never gets to VMware. The X server grabs it. (I
> couldn't figure out how to deal with that, so I just ssh'd in.)
I'm pretty sure there's a way to do this. Googling gets:
http://en.opensuse.org/Setting_up_SUSE_Linux_as_a_VMware_Guest
which suggests:
Hold Ctrl+Alt and hit Space and then F1 (or Fn) without releasing
Ctrl+Alt. This will invoke the Ctrl-Alt-F1 on the guest OS.
Jonathon
