On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 07:59:43PM -0500, Kevin Flanagan wrote: > I have a system that has only a serial console, I can attach to it > with > Windows and a terminal program just fine, so I know that my hardware is > fine, but what I can't remember is how to attach an xterm, or for that > matter a Virtual console, to a serial port /dev/ttyS0 (com1) > > Once the system is up, I can ssh to it, but I'm planning on reloading > the system, it'd be nice to see that happen ;')
If I understand you correctly, you have no VGA + keyboard console and you only have a serial port. You want to reload the machine using the serial port? I worked at using serial consoles pretty hard in 2002 and came away disappointed. You will not get all the information in a serial console that you get with a vga/keyboard console unless you do some fixing and tweeking. You should google this because people have done this. Here's something that looks bang on and it's recent too. http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO.html -- Mike Two hundred years ago, we note mischievously, the average American or European had a standard of living not very much superior to that of the average man in India or China. -- dailyreckoning.com -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
