From owner-freebsd-small Tue Nov 21 8:56:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1E3C37B4C5 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 08:56:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eALGuXQ31057; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 09:56:33 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id JAA35031; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 09:56:28 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200011211656.JAA35031@harmony.village.org> To: Andrzej Bialecki Subject: Re: Serial console only - no keyboard or vga Cc: Roger Wilco , freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG, general@vicfug.au.freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 21 Nov 2000 12:40:08 +0100." References: Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 09:56:28 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message