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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

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