HOW TO USE THIS SYSTEM ====================== The following keys are recognised in most of the dialogs you'll encounter during this installation: KEY ACTION --- ------ SPACE Select or toggle the current item. RETURN Continue or invoke selected menu button. UP ARROW Move to previous item (or up, in a text field). DOWN ARROW Move to next item (or down, in a text field). TAB Move to next item or group. RIGHT ARROW Move to next item or group (same as TAB). SHIFT-TAB Move to previous item or group. LEFT ARROW Move to previous item or group (same as SHIFT-TAB). PAGE UP In text boxes, scrolls up one page. PAGE DOWN In text boxes, scrolls down one page. If you see small "^(-)" or "v(+)" symbols at the edges of a menu, it means that there are more items above or below the current one that aren't being shown (due to insufficient screen space). Using the up/down arrow keys will cause the menu to scroll. The PageUp and PageDown keys will scroll by entire screens. In text fields, the amount of text above the current point will be displayed as a percentage in the lower right corner. A value of 100% means that you're at the bottom of the available text. Selecting OK in a menu will confirm whatever action it's controlling. Selecting Cancel will cancel the operation and generally return you to the previous menu. SPECIAL FEATURES: ================= It is also possible to select a menu item by typing the first character of its name, if unique. Such "accelerator" characters will be specially highlighted in the item name. Unfortunately, the accellerators aren't always unique (a shortcoming of the dialog menu library) so you'll only be able to get at the *first* unique menu entry for a given accellerator. The console driver also contains a scroll-back buffer for reviewing things that may have scrolled off the screen. To use scroll-back, press the "Scroll Lock" key on your keyboard and use the arrow or Page Up/Page Down keys to move through the saved text. To leave scroll-back mode, press the Scroll Lock key again. This feature is most useful for reading back through your boot messages (go ahead, try it now!) though it's also useful when dealing with sub-shells or other "wizard modes" that don't use menus and tend to scroll their output off the top of the screen. Once the system is fully installed and running multi-user you will also find that you have multiple "virtual consoles" and can use them to have several active sessions at once. Use ALT-F to switch between them, where `F' is the function key corresponding to the screen you wish to see. By default, the system comes with 3 virtual consoles enabled. You can create more by editing the /etc/ttys file (up to a maximum of 12).