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Date:      Sat, 13 May 2006 16:46:42 +0900
From:      Watanabe Kazuhiro <CQG00620@nifty.ne.jp>
To:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Tom Moore <tom@tomstroubleshooting.com>
Subject:   Re: Serial based install
Message-ID:  <20060513074410.F0A8ABEE3@mail.asahi-net.or.jp>
In-Reply-To: <008101c675f0$0a881890$6603a8c0@zeus>
References:  <008101c675f0$0a881890$6603a8c0@zeus>

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Hi,

At Fri, 12 May 2006 14:15:20 -0400,
Tom Moore wrote:
> Hi guys.
> How do I force the FreeBSD to do a serial port based install?
> I'm installing on to a laptop, but want to control the install from a serial
> port on another machine because I can not see the screen on the laptop.
> I tried modifying the boot.flp image and putting a file called boot.conf
> with the following line in it:
> /boot/loader -h
> This didn't seem to work?
> Am I modifying the wrong image for this or should I modify one of the kernel
> images?
> 
> Please advise what I should do next.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tom

Try to insert the following line in your /boot/loader.conf at the
first line:

console="comconsole"

See the FreeBSD Handbook:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html

---
Watanabe Kazuhiro (CQG00620@nifty.ne.jp)



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