On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 11:28:18AM -0500, Bodnyk, Bruce W wrote: > I installed Debian Linux 2.2 on a machine at home that I want to configure > as a firewall. I don't have a monitor for this machine so I've been swapping > my monitor between this machine and my NT workstation. I do have an old > ASCII terminal from years back and it occurred to me that I should be able > to plug it into a serial port and configure it to be my system console. How > easy is this to do? Can anyone point me in the right direction or tell me > how I can go about doing this?
have a look at /etc/inittab : # Example how to put a getty on a serial line (for a terminal) # #T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 9600 vt100 ttyS0 is the first serial port. 9600 the speed, and vt100 the terminal type. fiddle with those settings and after making a change run: init q to get the system to reread the file. hope that helps.
