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From: deasey@server1.netpath.net (Geoffrey Deasey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: console device
Date: 13 Jan 1996 23:31:30 GMT
Organization: Netpath, Inc. Burlington, NC, USA
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Message-ID: <4d9fci$sga@dailyplanet.netpath.net>
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Is there a way to change the console device while booting from the floppy ?  I have a machine that has a Link terminal as the console.  No KB no Monitor.
It is running Linux (Slackware, really old).  Or do I have to get a monitor ?

--Jeff

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