How to change the font size within a root console?

[Bert Freudenberg]

On Feb 13, 2008, at 4:39 , Bennett Todd wrote:

> 2008-02-13T03:14:09 Kent Loobey:
>> I have a hard time reading anything within the root console.  How  
>> can I
>> increase its font size?
>
> The attached email has a _Lovely_ font for the console. Save it,
> don't uncompress it, copy the 15x30pc.psf.gz as is to
> /lib/kbd/consolefonts/, then "setfont 15x30pc".

I made a little script using that font and switching to black-on- 
white. After each upgrade I simply run ~olpc/whiteonblack/ 
whiteonblack to get back a nice console :)

http://dev.laptop.org/~bert/whiteonblack.tar.gz

- Bert -