On Sun, 25 Apr 1999, Robert Vollmert wrote:
> Hi, > > On Sun, Apr 25, 1999 at 11:39:53AM -0500, Jor-el wrote: > > The what I would like to do is to use the monitor that I have as a > > console for both machines A and B. Unfortunately, I cant accomplish this > > via a CPU switch, thanks to the non-standard monitor cable (Aptiva S90) > > that I have. I was thinking that maybe I could hook up B as using a serial > > console, and connect the serial port to the serial port of A, and then > > somehow get the stuff displayed on a separate window / tty on A. > > I'd suggest creating a small network using PPP over your serial ports > (you would need a null-modem cable for this). You can then use telnet > on A to work on B, and can even run X apps on B. There is a section on > this in the PPP HOWTO (packages doc-linux-text or doc-linux-html). > Robert, Thanks for the answer, but you misunderstood my requirement entirely. The two machines are connected via ethernet already, and telnet works perfectly. But this doesnt make the monitor of machine A act as a _console_ for machine B. For instance, how would you monitor the bootup messages of machine B using the setup you described? I think the answer that Ralf Bergs has provided is more suitable. Jor-el