On Tue, 15 Sep 2020 at 00:10, David Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon 14 Sep 2020 at 19:48:37 (+1000), David wrote: > > On Mon, 14 Sep 2020 at 04:05, Felix Miata <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Richard Owlett composed on 2020-09-13 05:15 (UTC-0500):
> > > > Where can I find description of using installer's interactive shells on > > > > tty1-tty4? > > To explore and confirm and maybe learn something from > > smarter people, I report below some actual test results: > > I begin by booting the buster installer on real hardware, > > and it stops at "Debian installer main menu". [...] > > I was unable to find any evidence for the use of /dev/tty1, > > apart from pressing alt-F1 working as expected. > > But I was just poking around cluelessly for curiosity, someone > > else might know a way to do that. BusyBox 'ps' appears to not > > provide tty information. [...] > > I'm not very knowledgeable about all this tty stuff so I will leave > > it at that. > Same here. An interesting search. I found more answers in /etc/inittab in the installer BusyBox environment and saved a copy of it to show here ... $ grep tty busybox-etc-inittab tty2::askfirst:-/bin/sh tty3::askfirst:-/bin/sh tty4::respawn:/usr/bin/tail -f /var/log/syslog tty0::respawn:/sbin/debian-installer And if I understand correctly, tty0 is "the current tty" which for some reason must get activated as /dev/pts/0 rather than /dev/tty1.
