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<title>Using the Shell and Viewing the Logs</title>
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There is an Execute a Shell item on the menu. If the menu is not
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available when you need to use the shell, press <keycombo>
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<keycap>Left Alt</keycap> <keycap>F2</keycap></keycombo> (on a Mac
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keyboard, <keycombo><keycap>Option</keycap> <keycap>F2</keycap>
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</keycombo>) to get to the second <emphasis>virtual
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console</emphasis>. That's the <keycap>Alt</keycap> key on the
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left-hand side of the <keycap>space bar</keycap>, and the
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<keycap>F2</keycap> function key, at the same time. This is a separate
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window running a Bourne shell clone called <command>ash</command>.
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At this point you are booted from the RAM disk, and there is a limited
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set of Unix utilities available for your use. You can see what
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programs are available with the command <userinput>ls /bin /sbin
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/usr/bin /usr/sbin</userinput>. The text editor is
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<command>nano</command>. The shell has some nice features like
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autocompletion and history.
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Use the menus to perform any task that they are able to do — the
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shell and commands are only there in case something goes wrong. In
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particular, you should always use the menus, not the shell, to
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activate your swap partition, because the menu software can't detect
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that you've done this from the shell. Press <keycombo><keycap>Left
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Alt</keycap> <keycap>F1</keycap></keycombo> to get back to menus, or
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type <userinput>exit</userinput> if you used a menu item to open the