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- From: I4AQ@MUSICT.MCGILL.CA (I4AQ)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: How can I remove virtual consoles?
- Message-ID: <21JAN93.10568571.0060@VM1.MCGILL.CA>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 14:47:08 GMT
- References: <19JAN93.17674840.0248@VM1.MCGILL.CA> <9301202047@fcshome.UUCP>
- Sender: usenet@MUSICT.MCGILL.CA
- Organization: McGill University
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- >What I fail to comprehend is why you would want FEWER login devices
- >available.
- >
- >Fred
-
- <g> I want to make a boot floppy that could could machines with
- different local configuration. I had Coherent installed on a portable
- and reversed an "ln -f" call while updating to a newer kernel, sent
- to me by MWC... I then proceded to backup, repartition and install
- Coherent on another machine, so that I could make a boot floppy off
- it and boot my portable on it and copy the new kernel on its HD.
- I made the mistake of having virtual consoles on my desktop and my
- portable had to use the special driver from MWCBBS to have virtual
- consoles... So my boot disk is trying to start up with the standard
- US keyboard tables, and fails. I've got many customized files on that
- portable, I don't want to format it... So, by making a non-loadable
- keyboard, I should be able to boot on the portable and copy the
- correct kernel on it. (The old kernel won't boot with the modified
- bins, such as fsck...) Makes sense now? <g>
-