Remote Console for Fedora Core 2

[TobyR]

I'm just setting up a new PC with Fedora Core 2. As I ahve done on several occasions before now I used the Remote-Console-HOWTO to set up ... a remote console (!)

This HOWTO is very good - informative, well written and not verbose. However, I found that whislt I could see boot up messages I couldn't get a login prompt. After a little investigation I found that where the HOWTO recommended adding the following to /etc/inittab ...

co:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty ttyS0 CON9600 vt102

... what I actually required was ...

co:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty ttyS0 9600 vt100

(in all other respects the HOWTO was spot on)

Hope this helps someone out there.

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serial console remote ttyS0

[happybunny]

great!

but where is the actual HowTo?

[Loki3]

I assume it's this one but toby should confirm:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO

[TobyR]

Yes it is - apologies for the omission.

It's also available at:

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO/index.html