[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg) writes:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Paul McHale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can you boot Linux without a video card installed ? I would have thought
the BIOS would have had a problem with that ...
Yup, works just fine. In fact, if you have the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg) writes:
I know what you want. You want to run minicom in a screen session.
Start it once, detach it whenever you want, attach it later.
Hmm. Interesting. I've never used screen. I'll have to see how it
works. I was worried about security, but if
I've set up one of my headless machines to use ttyS0 as a serial
console, and I've also set it up to run getty on that port after it
finishes booting.
Using minicom from another machine, I can monitor the other machine's
serial port and see that everything works fine. After it boots, I can
log
Rob, why not do everything via telnet or ssh? two network cards can be had
for under $50 if the machines don't already have network cards..
(sorry for the lack of real response, I don't know how to do what you
want... so I will try to find out why you want it. :)
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at
Seth R Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Rob, why not do everything via telnet or ssh? two network cards can be had
for under $50 if the machines don't already have network cards..
The serial console is to handle cases where the machine can't even
boot to the telnet or ssh stage. This machine
inittab/serial console question...
Seth R Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Rob, why not do everything via telnet or ssh? two network cards can be had
for under $50 if the machines don't already have network cards..
The serial console is to handle cases where the machine can't even
boot
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What I'd really like is some little
daemon on the machine connected to the headless machine that watches
and logs the serial port output, and that you could connect to
whenever you wanted (access would be exclusive) to
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Paul McHale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can you boot Linux without a video card installed ? I would have thought
the BIOS would have had a problem with that ...
Yup, works just fine. In fact, if you have the serial console support
compiled in, the kernel will detect
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