From owner-freebsd-small Tue Nov 21 9:35:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from mimer.webgiro.com (unknown [213.162.128.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C067C37B4D7 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 09:35:11 -0800 (PST) Received: by mimer.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 66) id B041E2DC0B; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 18:37:28 +0100 (CET) Received: by mx.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D39647817; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 18:32:45 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx.webgiro.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6BE910E1B; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 18:32:45 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 18:32:45 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki To: Warner Losh Cc: Roger Wilco , freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG, general@vicfug.au.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Serial console only - no keyboard or vga In-Reply-To: <200011211656.JAA35031@harmony.village.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Warner Losh wrote: > 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. 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 // 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