On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 11:30, Kurc, Marcin A. wrote: > add the following to your lilo.conf > append = "console=ttyS0,9600" > or whatever port you connecting to > then just run minicom
I presume that you mean to run minicom on the "other" system. In his case, would he need to run minicom, since he's plugging a terminal directly into COM1? (I do agree, though, that an ASCII terminal has it's limitations. Running a cable between from the firewall to another machine at home and then running minicom would be much more practical, since you can scroll back history.) Also, there's the side issues of whether the mobo requires a keyboard and video card to be plugged in. Most do. > Marcin Kurc > CAD Systems Administrator > Cooper-Standard Automotive > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bodnyk, Bruce W [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 11:28 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Setting up an ASCII terminal as a Console > > > 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? -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org:81 | | | | "(Women are) like compilers. They take simple statements | | and make them into big productions." | | Pitr Dubovitch | +------------------------------------------------------------+
