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From: larry@rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: multiple vt's increase to 8
Date: 11 Aug 1995 10:36:55 -0000
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References: <40dt73$416@trauma.rn.com> <DD5Atn.Fn5@ritz.mordor.com>
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In article <DD5Atn.Fn5@ritz.mordor.com>,
Chris Mauritz <ritz@ritz.mordor.com> wrote:
>Larry Snyder (larry@rn.com) wrote:
>: How do I increase the number of virtual terminals on
>: the console from the default of 3 to 8?
>
>Isn't this configurable in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/yourkernel?
>I believe the option in your case would be:
>
>options		"MAXCONS=8"
>Of course, then you need to config...make depend...make all...etc.

I'm running with the MAXCONS=10 as the default - but I don't have
the 10 VT's available -- only 3..