Kernel build, smp

[Gary Richardson]

Tony Hoover wrote:

 >It might help to run it from a serial console.  That way 
 >the screen doesn't
 >blank when the system restarts.

Could you point me in a direction to set up my machine
to do this? I assume I would need to run minicom or
something similar on another machine. Everything I read
is setting a getty but that is not going to do the job.

-- 
Gary Richardson
garich at ptd.net