Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 22 Jun 1996 03:00:06 +1000 (EST) | From | Michael Mansour <> | Subject | Re: Console as terminal on serial port |
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Hi Mark,
On Fri, 21 Jun 1996, Mark Buckaway wrote:
> "Michael Mansour said:" > > > >Just configure a getty in /etc/inittab to access a dumb terminal via null > >modem serial cable. Use mgetty, it handles it well. > > Ah, not as easy are you think. Getty runs AFTER the system is booted. > Thus, all boot time stuff from LILO until getty is not seen.
If you want to see it, just use dmesg after you login to the dumb terminal.
> Basically, I would like to NOT put any video card in the system. The > motherboards I use permit this to happen (I think). I don't want to > find a video card and monitor each time I can't do something over a > serial port. > > Most workstations support booting up from a dumb term or a frame > buffer/graphics card. I would just like to do this with Linux on a PC.
No worries. The above method is not exactly what you're after, but it's very close.
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