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Subject: Re: Installer on serial-console-only-embedded system
From: CeDeROM <cederom@tlen.pl>
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On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Kimmo Paasiala <kpaasial@gmail.com> wrote:
> You can easily detect that the system has a COM port. However, it is
> very hard to detect that there is a working terminal attached to the
> port.
> -Kimmo

Hey Kimmo :-) Wouldn't "who" or "w" show that what terminal is
user/installer running on? :-P Sorry I don't have that device for
testing at hand, but try to verify that with some older hardware :-)

Best regards! :-)
Tomek

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