Re: Setting up remote console on Linux.

Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl)
13 Jan 2000 15:46:24 GMT

In article <cistron.200001131010.PAA15375@gem.wipinfo.soft.net>,
T V Govind <thiruvengada.govindan@wipro.com> wrote:
> Does anybody know of how to setup a remote console on linux. The
> documentation talks about setting up a serial console.

Read /usr/src/linux/Documentation/serial-console.txt, and make sure
that your kernel was compiled with serial console support turned on.

> i am trying to
> get linux on a box thats only got a serial port. i have setup the
> machine with a null-modem cable and have connected it to the serial
> port of another machine running linux (both running 2.2.15).

Euh.. kernel 2.2.15 doesn't exist yet, latest is 2.2.14 which was released
a week ago or so.

Mike.

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