Switching Between the CLI (Text Mode) and the GUI (Graphical User Interface Mode)
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This part of the walkthrough was written before Managing Your Files.
Presss CTRL+ALT+F2 (any button from F1 to F6 will work, just remember which one you pressed in case you need to switch between GUI and CLI).You will now see the CLI login screen. To return to the GUI at any time, press CTRL+ALT+F7 (F7 is the key that the GUI is assigned to). Type arklinux (that's arklinux with no spaces, all lower case letters) and press Enter or Return. You will now be logged into CLI as the default arklinux user:
Type help for a list of some possible commands (there are more commands available, only a few commands are reviewed here):
To see a list of your PCI devices, type /sbin/lspci:
Now type clear and press enter. This will clear off your sereen:
Now type su - (that's su [space] - , not su or su-) and press enter. This will log you in to the root account. To see your hard disk partition layout, type fdisk -l (that's fdisk [space] -l , not fdisk or fdisk-l or fdisk [space] l):
Type exit and press enter. This will log you out of the root account. Follow this picture to copy our Linux history file from our home folder to our Dekstop:
Now type exit and press Enter or Return. This will log you out of CLI. Press CTRL+ALT+F7 to return to the GUI.
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