Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 18:32:45 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> 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: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0011211830440.49094-100000@mx.webgiro.com> In-Reply-To: <200011211656.JAA35031@harmony.village.org>
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On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Warner Losh wrote: > 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. The last option is most likely, as I have a system running exactly in this configuration... > 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. Depends if you use static or dynamic binaries, but I agree - it's still minor problem as compared with e.g. ssh :-) Andrzej Bialecki // <abial@webgiro.com> WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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