Chris Lumens wrote:
>
> I've verified that the serial console works for installing. The
> rootdisks sunc out last night work just fine. All I had to do was
> uncomment out two lines from /etc/inittab and /etc/securetty.
>
> Those changes were NOT made to the etc package, though. So if you intend
> to keep using serial console after you have installed, make sure to
> modify those two files on the installed system before you reboot. You
> can find them in /mnt/etc if you're still running off the rootdisk.
Ok, so it has been a while since this was posted, but, It would be
benificial
to Alpha users if this was changed in the etc package. At least for
ttyS0,
which is what the Alpha's default to if there is not keyboard present.
This would remain consitant with what an Alpha user would expect of the
machine
(with whatever OS is it using). I just ran into the problem of having
an
unusable machine because I was running it headless, which causes
headaches for
people given the fact hat the install disks to work as expected.
-Chris
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