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Date:      Tue, 21 Nov 2000 09:56:28 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com>
Cc:        Roger Wilco <freebsd@m2mtechnology.com>, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG, general@vicfug.au.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Serial console only - no keyboard or vga 
Message-ID:  <200011211656.JAA35031@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 21 Nov 2000 12:40:08 %2B0100." <Pine.BSF.4.20.0011211237410.46601-100000@mx.webgiro.com> 
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.20.0011211237410.46601-100000@mx.webgiro.com>  

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In message <Pine.BSF.4.20.0011211237410.46601-100000@mx.webgiro.com> Andrzej Bialecki writes:
: What I use to do is to put getty on 'console' instead, so that I can still
: log in if I decide to reboot with normal console - assuming you want to
: have only one getty running, if your memory is precious...

You can't do that.  It won't work.  At least I've never been able to
get it to work.  I burn the extra getty on my box, but then again
things aren't too tight there.  An extra getty takes only a few k of
memory because it shared most of the memory with the other, used getty.

Warner


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