RE: [suse-sparc] SuSE 7 -- Serial Console Installation

From: Richard E. Robbins (rerobbins@home.com)
Date: Sun Dec 03 2000 - 13:47:14 PST

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    From: "Richard E. Robbins" <rerobbins@home.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 15:47:14 -0600
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Subject: RE: [suse-sparc] SuSE 7 -- Serial Console Installation

    I've managed to complete my installation using a VT420 attached to the Sparc
    20 serial port. I went with the default set of packages.

    It appears that the system is still trying to establish a set of virtual
    consoles since I get messages from init about ID's one through six
    respawning too fast. Presumably I should just comment out those lines in
    /etc/inittab. I'd would have hoped that this would have happened
    automatically by virtue of doing a serial console install. Oh well.

    I want to manage this machine over my network via X windows or, at a minimum
    telnet or ssh.

    What do I need to do to allow root logins from something other than the
    console?

    Also, what do I need to do to allow xdm or kdm to manage window sessions
    established over a network connection?

    YaST and YaST2 or not very useful when running a session hooked up to my
    VT420 (which is in VT100 mode). The display quickly gets too garbled to be
    helpful.

    -- Rich
    -----Original Message-----
    From: Thorsten Kukuk [mailto:kukuk@suse.de]
    Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2000 10:44 AM
    To: suse-sparc@suse.com
    Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] SuSE 7 -- Serial Console Installation

    Hi,

    the best method to install SuSE Linux/SPARC over a serial console
    is to boot the old YaST1. Enter the following on the SILO boot
    prompt:

    "yast1 TERM=vt100" or "yast1 TERM=vt102".

    YaST1 has sometimes problems with the default TERM value.
    If you have a different terminal, maybe you have to try another
    TERM value. One of the both always works for me, depending which
    terminal program I'm using.

      Thorsten 

    --
Thorsten Kukuk       http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/       kukuk@suse.de
SuSE GmbH            Schanzaeckerstr. 10            90443 Nuernberg
Linux is like a Vorlon.  It is incredibly powerful, gives terse,
cryptic answers and has a lot of things going on in the background.

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