I need of Arch help!!! No terminal....
 

I have been "playing around" with Linux for a few years now and I am starting to get love with it. Today I finally got Arch installed on my laptop and then I installed GDM. Now GDM auto runs from boot. The problem is that I forgot to install the extras and I no longer have any kind of terminal and as far as I can tell I have no way to install anything without reformatting. Is there a way to log out log GDM so I can install the extras?

For my cli boot I use init 3

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...ipts/runlevels

You can use runlevel 1 or 3 for a terminal session.

I am not sure if Cntrl+Alt+t will drop you out of GDM and into terminal mode because I do not use GDM.

Arch now runs systemd - perhaps this might be a better reference in this case.

Arch is a learning experience - the doco is excellent, so use it.

perhaps he's just looking for a way to log in?

*In GDM press Ctrl+Alt+F1
*log in as root (or use sudo)
*disable GDM (will take down X as well):
*fix whatever you need to fix

*enable GDM again (if that's what you wish):

*post back if any of the above steps don't work

Using the init command (not sysv specific) should work as well (though not recommended with any init-system).

I did that once. Went all the way through the install and boot went straight to GMD but I could not log into gui as root. I booted back to the install disk and chrooted to fix it. Haven;t forgotten to add a user since^o^

It's as easy as typing adduser ;)
Ps: the root part is an X thingy can be undone (though not recommended for obvious reasons).

Yep, but at the time I liked to make everything more difficult;)

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I was able to install the extras by placing the install disk in and rebooting. From there I just remounted the new OS and could install the extras