[arch-dev-public] [signoff] vc/* -> tty* transition

Dan McGee dpmcgee at gmail.com
Sat Jul 18 09:22:35 EDT 2009


On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Thomas Bächler<thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Allan McRae schrieb:
>>
>>  From experience...  not necessarily.  I got into X without doing that
>> although I had no tty's.
>> But exactly how do we deal with this?  Post a new item before the move?
>
> Fix it: apply a cool sed line that seds vc/$NUMBER to tty$NUMBER on inittab.
> This will not destroy anything, but potentially fix it.

Those of us not using X on certain machines would get burned here, so
its definitely worth attempting to fix...

-Dan


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