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From: "J. W. Ballantine" <jwb@homer.att.com>
Subject: system bootup console setup
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Ok,  I should be able to find this somewhere
in the documentation, but I can't (must be looking
for the wrong key words).

When the system boots, the consoles need to be initialized
and defined somewhere.  I want to change the definition, but
I can't find the startup script that init's them.  Which one
is it?

Thanks

Jim