Re: Installing redhat linux 4.0

[Nicolas Pitre <nico CAM ORG>]

On Tue, 21 Jan 1997, Luke Davis wrote:

> Well, I had no problems running slakware setup from a terminal; I just
> booted with the boot, and root disks I needed, logged in as "root", ran
> The following commands (with out speach):
> 
> rm /etc/securetty
> cat >/etc/securetty
> tty0
> tty1
> tty2
> tty3
> tty4
> tty5
> tty6
> ttyS0
> ttyS1
> ^d
> agetty 38400 ttyS0 vt100

After loging in as root on the console, you also could type only this:

    /bin/sh < /dev/ttyS0 > /dev/ttyS0

and then take over to your terminal.  It'll go at 9600 bauds wich is
usually the default baudrate, but it is pretty acceptable for installation
session.



nico cam org
Nicolas Pitre
ing. stag.