Anders Hammarquist wrote: > Way back in 1.3 days I managed to install debian on a headless sparc. > There is nothing in init that requires that the tty is the console, it > will work (or did at least then) with a serial console. What I did to > get the output in the right place was to change /dev/console, > /dev/tty0 and /dev/tty1 to symlinks /dev/ttyS0 (I think, maybe I used > mknod to change the minor) on the install root (this implies that you > have to have access to machine which can read/write ext2). After you > are installed, you have to make sure that init runs a getty on your > serial port (boot singleuser if it doesn't and edit inittab). Other > than that I don't recall having any problems. (The 'normal' init > doesn't have problems with the serial console, it's just the one on > the install disks).
In fact, this is kind of problem I told ;-) I fixed it in Debian init but a lot of changed have appeared in boot-floppies package since my last upload. I'm working on it but we need latest dpkg, kbd, sysvinit, ... A lot of packages to rebuild before I can package new boot-floppies. BTW, your patch could work. Just a remainder: the TERM=linux set internally by init tells newt to draw frames with bad characters (letters instead of -|) on vt* terminals. I replaced it by TERM=vt100 in case of serial console but do you know a better choice ? Is there a way to detect serial console type ? Regards. -- Eric Delaunay | "La guerre justifie l'existence des militaires. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | En les supprimant." Henri Jeanson (1900-1970) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
