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From: obrien@Nuxi.com (David E. O'Brien)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Virtual Consoles
Date: 26 Feb 1996 10:23:47 GMT
Organization: University of California, Davis
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: 
: I had to edit /dev/MAKEDEV and change the line sh MAKEDEV vty4 to
: sh MAKEDEV vty12 to get it to make the devices.  I tried editing /etc/tty
: first, but that did not work.  My f12 is set aside for X and I can switch from

Why not just run MAKEDEV with vty12 as an argument?

-- David   (obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu)