How do I open a terminal window in Ubuntu Linux?

Question

I'm making a bootable flash drive with Ubuntu 7.04 on it and the first step is to open a terminal window when the computer boots from the CD.

Answer 1

On Ubuntu, the terminal window app is located on the top menu bar under, "Applications - Accessories" and is called "Terminal".

After you get into the terminal, then you can continue with the steps for making your bootable flash drive like,

Entering superuser credentials
"sudo su"
if prompted for a password, it should be yours

Displaying the available partitions
fdisk -l

.. and so on.

Answer 2

It means you must boot in the "recovery console", meaning no boot splash and no xserver initialisation (with gdm or kdm). If you'll be modifying system variabiles or need to work as root be sure you check that the system level 3 is currenty activated.