On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Frederic Breitwieser wrote: : >Frederic: try installing mingetty (uses less mem and CPU anyway), then : >change all the lines in inittab to use mingetty. This should both solve : >the problem and help you w/ resources. : : Thank you for your very QUICK response. I'll do that once the rest of the : packages are done installing. I'm curious, is getty, mingetty, etc, even : slightly necessary? Realistically, I wont be using a modem... this was : just to install debian, since I don't have my firewall working. yet ;)
getty (and its clones) provide you with a login prompt on the virtual consoles ... if you want to login, you'll need a getty :) -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
