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Re: Use of installer's interactive shells on tty1-tty4



On Tue 15 Sep 2020 at 14:42:11 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote:
> David Wright composed on 2020-09-15 12:32 (UTC-0400):
> 
> > Felix's first post came from, I don't quite get.
> 
> Fallible memory. I use multiple distros, and do a lot more upgrading than new
> installs. openSUSE, last I installed, a month ago, puts something on each of
> tty1-12. 1 is the installer itself, initially text, later GUI. First shell is on
> 2, followed by logs on the next 2 or more before the next available shell. In any
> installer, 2 is my goto shell, while in any running system 3 is my ordinary goto
> shell, 2 is for MC, and 4 is for chrooting or an extra plain shell.

I ought to have guessed—I don't know how you keep track of so many!

Cheers,
David.


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