> > 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.
I'd agree that doing so would make things more consistent. However, I
don't like the idea of opening up more places for root to login without
some sort of prompting the user. Even though something bad happening on
ttyS0 is very unlikely, it just seems a little scary to me.
How about if I add something to setup that asks if you want to enable
serial console stuff? It wouldn't even have to be added to setup, but
could be another "setup.serialconsole" that gets run during the
configuration stages.
Thoughts?
--
Chris Lumens - chris@slackware.com - KG6CIH
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