Re: Setting up an ASCII terminal as a Console

2002-03-11 Thread Alan James
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 02:04:33PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 12:30:09PM -0500, 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 > > Why would you run minico

RE: Setting up an ASCII terminal as a Console

2002-03-11 Thread Ron Johnson
TECTED] > 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

Re: Setting up an ASCII terminal as a Console

2002-03-11 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 12:30:09PM -0500, 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 Why would you run minicom? *How* would you run minicom if you weren't already at a command line prom

Re: Setting up an ASCII terminal as a Console

2002-03-11 Thread David Hart
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 > A

Re: Setting up an ASCII terminal as a Console

2002-03-11 Thread Alan James
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 > AS

RE: Setting up an ASCII terminal as a Console

2002-03-11 Thread Kurc, Marcin A.
h 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 a

Setting up an ASCII terminal as a Console

2002-03-11 Thread Bodnyk, Bruce W
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