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On Thursday 19 February 2004, at 12 h 41, the keyboard of "C.L. Lai [ALAN]" 
<clai33@uwo.ca> wrote:

> can i install freebsd-5.2 w/o a serial terminal? ie installation w/ a
> local video console.

No, serial console is mandatory. NetBSD or Debian installs fine on the local console but not (yet?) FreeBSD.