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Date:      Sun, 28 May 1995 19:08:39 +0800 (CST)
From:      Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw>
To:        Ranger <ranger@simon.sfsu.edu>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Progress! help :)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.91.950528190607.4110C-100000@leo>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950527175729.11390A-100000@simon>

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On Sat, 27 May 1995, Ranger wrote:
> 
> Also, out of Idle curiousity, how do you access addistion virtual 
> termials? I uped the number  in the kernel configuration file to 8, but I 
> still only have access to 3.

    Make sure you have the additional devices created in /dev (do a
"cd /dev ; ./MAKEDEV vty8" to make 8 ttyv* devices).  Then look in
your /etc/ttys file and duplicate and edit the lines starting with
"ttyv" so that a login prompt will be waiting for you on each virtual
console.
-- 
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org




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