From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 1 8:48:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from merganser.its.uu.se (merganser.its.uu.se [130.238.6.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7F3737B6C4 for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 08:48:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.csd.uu.se) Received: from regulus.student.UU.SE ([130.238.5.2]:41690 "HELO ertr1013.student.csd.uu.se") by merganser.its.uu.se with SMTP id ; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 17:48:07 +0200 Received: (qmail 5678 invoked by uid 1001); 1 Jun 2000 15:47:44 -0000 Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 17:47:44 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Tyler Spivey Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: serial terminal question please resopnd Message-ID: <20000601174744.A5611@student.csd.uu.se> Mail-Followup-To: Tyler Spivey , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200006011329.GAA15272@viper.wapvi.bc.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200006011329.GAA15272@viper.wapvi.bc.ca>; from tyler@wapvi.bc.ca on Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 06:29:04AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 06:29:04AM -0700, Tyler Spivey wrote: > how can i access vty3 from my serial port? i can't read the linux or I don't think you can. The installation program works on the assumption that you do sit at the console with full access to it. Do you really need to get at vty3 ? AFAIK you only need to go there if there are problems with the installation. Most (all?) stuff should be installable without needing to switch vty's. > freebsd install screen so igotta use this serial terminal, shoudl i plug > in the keyboard and see if i can get what types on the normal keyboard out > to my terminal No, you can either have a normal console or a serial console. Not both at the same time. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message