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HaxNet
HaxNet

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Multiple TTY Console

Something useful when you are installing Arch and you are stuck.
You can't access your login at startup
Try to use another TTY by pressing

ctrl+alt+F1
ctrl+alt+F2
ctrl+alt+F3
ctrl+alt+F4
ctrl+alt+F5
ctrl+alt+F6
ctrl+alt+F7

My default is tty7, but if you ever need to additional consoles to use, you have it there.

One time I had to use irc in the terminal because my tty7 wasn't working correctly due to an update corruption or something and I went on TTY2 and went on weechat to ask for help.

You can also use this to do your upgrades in the background

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