Re: Setting up an ASCII terminal as a Console
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 11:28:18AM -0500, Bodnyk, Bruce W wrote:
> I installed Debian Linux 2.2 on a machine at home that I want to configure
> as a firewall. I don't have a monitor for this machine so I've been swapping
> my monitor between this machine and my NT workstation. I do have an old
> ASCII terminal from years back and it occurred to me that I should be able
> to plug it into a serial port and configure it to be my system console. How
> easy is this to do? Can anyone point me in the right direction or tell me
> how I can go about doing this?
have a look at /etc/inittab :
# Example how to put a getty on a serial line (for a terminal)
#
#T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 9600 vt100
ttyS0 is the first serial port. 9600 the speed, and vt100 the terminal type.
fiddle with those settings and after making a change run:
init q
to get the system to reread the file.
hope that helps.
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