From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 7 11:24:03 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F7C416A4CE for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 11:24:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mh1.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C180643D45 for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 11:24:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by mh1.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j37BO1eI045880; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 06:24:01 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <4255182E.1020002@centtech.com> Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 06:23:26 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050325 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?UTF-8?B?U8WCYXdlayDFu2Fr?= References: <787bbe1c0504070307670f5e5d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <787bbe1c0504070307670f5e5d@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.82/813/Thu Apr 7 05:20:51 2005 on mh1.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Serial console install X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 11:24:03 -0000 Sławek Żak wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to ask what's the reason behind requiring a keyboard during > FreeBSD install. Headless configuration is the most common in > datacenters and toying with KVM and VGA cable is often a no-no > (distance in the issue my case). > > Therefore why don't we introduce a prompt in the CD loader saying: > > "Press any key to install from video console..." > > Now wait 30s. If no key is pressed boot with console=comconsole. > > It would make my life sooo much easier and won't confuse noobs too much. Maybe so, but then people who do have video consoles plugged in would have to hit a key to keep going. Why not just read this: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-advanced.html Or even: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/5.3-RELEASE/floppies/README.TXT Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology A lost ounce of gold may be found, a lost moment of time never. ------------------------------------------------------------------------