Re: How did tty booting work?

From	Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@notused.fi.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc, comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject	Re: How did tty booting work?
Date	2013-04-09 23:27 +0300
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<kk1tee$im5$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References	<kk1h5q$em7$1@dont-email.me>

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On 9.4.13 7:55 , Avoid9Pdf@gmail.com wrote:
> In olden times they booted via a teletypewriter.
>
> So if you wanted to setup your system to do so now, could
> you write a script or make a setting to logon by paper-tty
> OR normal VGA/keybrd, depending which keybrd replied first.
> Or even better: both, like 2 mice can both talk.
>
> THEN how would you extend that to:
> boot with stdOut being a existsing routine that writes to the
> parallel-port ?
>
> Perhaps it's set in initab?
> And then how do you redirect stdOut to your par-port routine?
>
> == TIA.
>

Would you please read the documentation first?

http://www.tldp.org/ is a good starting point.

-- 

-T.

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How did tty booting work? Avoid9Pdf@gmail.com - 2013-04-09 16:55 +0000
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