From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 20 20:20:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA07928 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 20:20:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA07898 for ; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 03:20:45 GMT (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA18061; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 20:20:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 20:20:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Scott Myron cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" Subject: Re: virtual terms... In-Reply-To: <353B6E90.A947256D@hsonline.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Scott Myron wrote: > ok. I just recompiled my kernel with support for 16 tty's. now. I KNOW I > have to edit my /etc/ttys to enable them. but in my /dev dir, I only > have ttyv0-ttyv3. now how do I make more? Actually, it supports a bunch by default, I did it from a stock install on my laptop. :) Next steps: cd /dev; ./MAKEDEV vty16 vi /etc/ttys; add entries for ttyv3, ttyv4 ... etc, copying from ttyv1. kill -1 1 # enjoy your new virtual consoles :) > oh yeah, and just to save > space on my / partition, can I delete "kernel.GENERIC"? after all, I DO > have kernel and kernel.old. thanks again. As long as you have a known good kernel to fall back on should your original get corrupted or whatever, go ahead and delete it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message