From: Leah Neukirchen <le...@vuxu.org>
To: voidlinux@googlegroups.com
Cc: apfel <mages...@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: no getty on ttyS0 with the install image
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 13:46:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8760b3jvr1.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e3f11851-7358-41f0-8ce6-8fbc3566a82a@googlegroups.com> (via voidlinux's message of "Tue, 24 Oct 2017 08:47:40 -0700 (PDT)")
"'apfel' via voidlinux" <void...@googlegroups.com> writes:
> Hi,
>
> i do not understand why the installer does not provide a getty on ttyS0.
>
> Can somebody explain why this is the case?
>
> Would some developer want to change that?
>
> As far as i understand runit, the only thing which has to be done is to
> copy the correct file into the correct directory.
This is on my TODO, but I didn't yet get around it.
> A serial console for the installer would allow for installations via serial
> console, which is sometimes the only. I want to start with void linux
> but this makes it impossible for me right now.
You can just install Void manuall from any other Linux distribution
that speaks to ttyS0 already. ;)
--
Leah Neukirchen <le...@vuxu.org> http://leah.zone
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-25 11:46 UTC|newest]
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2017-10-24 15:47 apfel
2017-10-25 11:46 ` Leah Neukirchen [this message]
2017-10-25 11:57 ` Michael Gehring
2017-10-25 12:04 ` Leah Neukirchen
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