Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 15:06 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 18:28 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 00:44 +0200, Bjørn Ivar Johnsen wrote:
> > > The only thing is that I do not know how to work this"# rpm -ivh
> > > http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-9.rpm"... where do i enter this
> > > text?
> > > Hope you bear with me, I have never tried anything like this before. I
> > > suspect that I have to boot up, press "a" then "3", and then it should
> > > come
> > > to some interface where I can write this commands!?!
> > 
> > Exactly. Or you could do what someone else suggested: boot normally and
> > when you get the flashing stripes hit Ctrl-Alt-F1 (i.e. hold down the
> > Control and Alt keys and hit the F1 function key). That will switch you
> > to Virtual Console number 1, which is a text-mode terminal. Log in as
> > root and then type the commands as Marcelo said.
> 
> Don't you need to have X shutdown??

Not necessary to do the update. And after updating he's going to reboot.

poc