Installer - how to get a shell ?

[Mike Ruckman]

On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 08:12:29AM +1100, David Timms wrote:
> Hi, booted up a F21 alpha iso cd, and realized after the long wait that
> I didn't have networking configured during boot, and this probably led to:
> - no repository
> - no package selection possible.
> 
> I thought I would Alt-F1,F2 etc to find the shell (and set up networking
> manually, rather than waiting for a second boot cycle).
> F1 had the list of ttys along the bottom, but the shell one (F2 from
> memory) accepts enter (which outputs a blank line, but never gave a
> prompt or other response.
> 
> What's the trick to getting that (usable) shell to do things like
> check/set network ?
> 
> Also, should we be able to access wireless network during the first part
> of the installer (for network download/install of repos/packages) ?

The list of ttys you see along the bottom is from tmux [0]. From that screen
if you were to hit `ctrl-b 2` it would switch to the pane labelled 'shell' at
the bottom of the screen.

I use tmux everyday - it's pretty awesome :)

[0] http://tmux.sourceforge.net/

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