Ctrl-Alt-F1 should bring you to a text-console.

On Sun, 1 Jul 2012, Scott Berry wrote:

>
>
> Yes I do.  But I am uncertain about the screen settings as I installed 12.04 
> server and the screen is wildly not working.  It doesnt have the right VGA 
> settings. But I can try a few things.
>
> On 7/1/2012 12:46, Yaron wrote:
>> Do you have physical access to that machine? An ifconfig command will tell 
>> you the IP address, and you can just try using that. I don't know what 
>> router and configuration you use but most let you lock an IP address to a 
>> MAC address (which ifconfig will also show you), so you'd have a 
>> statically-provided DHCP address.
>> 
>> On Sun, 1 Jul 2012, Scott Berry wrote:
>> 
>>> Well I tried trout and it said there was no host on the network with that 
>>> name so I'll try forraging agin through the DHCP ip addresses I show on 
>>> the router to see if I can get it.
>>> 
>>> On 7/1/2012 11:56, Yaron wrote:
>>>> I'd assume your computer now has a totally different IP address than 
>>>> before. Are you using the correct address to try and connect? If you're 
>>>> using hostnames, has DNS been updates? Can the computer in question 
>>>> connect to other machines?
>>>> 
>>>> On Sun, 1 Jul 2012, Scott Berry wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hello there,
>>>>> 
>>>>> The other day I changed my "/etc/network/interfaces" to a static ip. 
>>>>> But I wasn't getting anything off the Internet so I decided to change 
>>>>> back and so I went in and changed "/etc/network/interfaces" back to a 
>>>>> dynamic address but I can't talk to the computer and I have done 
>>>>> "service networks start" and "service networks restart" without much 
>>>>> luck. Are there any ideas what I could do before I put a fresh install 
>>>>> on again? Thanks much for the help.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> -- 
>>>>> Have a beautiful day
>>>>> Scott Berry
>>>>> Msn:  electronicman1960
>>>>> Skype me at:  scottbb1973
>>>>> E-mail:  scottbb1973 at gmail.com
>>>>> 
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>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> -Yaron
>>>> 
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>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Have a beautiful day
>>> Scott Berry
>>> Msn:  electronicman1960
>>> Skype me at:  scottbb1973
>>> E-mail:  scottbb1973 at gmail.com
>>> 
>>> _______________________________________________
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>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -Yaron
>> 
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>
>
> -- 
> Have a beautiful day
> Scott Berry
> Msn:  electronicman1960
> Skype me at:  scottbb1973
> E-mail:  scottbb1973 at gmail.com
>
> _______________________________________________
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>


-Yaron

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