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HPR3341: Linux on a serial Terminal - And Jorome's MainFrame Challenge
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Well its bit of challenge for Jerome to teach me how to do a Mainframe on a PI with serial terminal. I started the project using a old HPE 700/96 terminal amber. I used this site as my prime info.
https://www.cyberciti.biz/hardware/5-linux-unix-commands-for-connecting-to-the-serial-console/
First is seeing if you have a serial port
dmesg | egrep --color 'serial|ttyS'
Then install getty if its not there
Then add your config line to /etc/gettydefs
Then make work if you reboot.
The do report
Then you have the log in prompt on the terminal