From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 4 10:15:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from manatee.mammalia.org (rjoseph-0.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.50.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28BD637B636 for ; Thu, 4 May 2000 10:15:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rjoseph@mammalia.org) Received: from localhost (rjoseph@localhost) by manatee.mammalia.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA07216; Thu, 4 May 2000 10:14:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rjoseph@mammalia.org) Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 10:14:55 -0700 (PDT) From: R Joseph Wright To: vasu@inorbit.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help need on consoles In-Reply-To: <000504030657HH.28337@weba7.iname.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 4 May 2000 vasu@inorbit.com wrote: > Hello FreeBSD'r > > Once again I need some help on FreeBSD. I m fimiliar > with BSDI's BSD and so I have questions due to differnce > in the two.. > > In BSDI .. we were able to get 8 console screens... > (Alt+f1, .. Alt+f8) stuff.. but in freebsd we get > only 3 such screens.. In BSDI .. we used to just > modify the /etc/ttys file to increase or decrease this > number but I find this file to be different in freebsd. > > any help ?? > In addition to editing /etc/ttys, you have to create the devices, as in "sh MAKEDEV vty8". There is also an option in the kernel "MAXCONS=n". To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message