[wellylug] second computer

[David Antliff]

On Mon, 9 May 2005, Andrew Stephen wrote:
> On 5/9/05, Arnim Littek <arnim at littek.actrix.gen.nz> wrote:
>> I'm not trying to take business away from DSE, but why bother, if 
>> you've got machines running X?
>
> For those occasions when X isn't running.  These moments are usually
> the very annoying ones that you want to finish as soon as possible and
> finding a convenient monitor and keyboard to plug in is, well, less
> than convenient.

Serial console? :)  Just tell Linux (at the bootloader) to use the serial 
port for it's console. You can even log in if you have it set up right. 
Would be a problem if you don't have a serial port however, but most old 
machines would. That's my last resort before hauling monitors around if 
the network fails to come up.

-- 
David.