On Thursday 10 February 2005 22:10, VEGH Karoly wrote:
> Hi,

> I checked the howto, the wiki, etc, and then tried to compare the two
> inittabs.

> The slackware inittab contains:
>
> c0:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty0 linux
> c1:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux
> c2:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux
> c3:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux

> The Debian inittab contains:
>
> 0:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 ttys0
This way? I would have expected ttys/0 from memory about DevFS...
> 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 ttys1
> 2:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 ttys2
> c:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 serial0
>
> [...hackhack...quickanddirty...tryanderror....]
>
> wellwellwell. It works.
>
> I added:
These new lines can even replace the one you quote above
> c0:1235:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty0 linux
> c1:1235:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1 linux
> c2:1235:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2 linux
> c3:1235:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3 linux
>
>
> to the debian inittab. Et voilá. It workz.

> The idea, why i still send this message: Could someone pls explain me
> what I made wrong, or if this is the right solution, could it be pls
> taken up to the Debian uml images? Or into the HOWTO?
The original Debian image was built, I guess (like for most images on the 
site) to be used with DevFS, and this accounts for the changed devices... 
actually, what needs to be changed is just the "tty0 / ttys0" part, which is 
the name for the device node inside /dev.
-- 
Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade
Linux registered user n. 292729
http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade




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