From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 8 13:18:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from lamb.sas.com (lamb.sas.com [192.35.83.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F7E415176 for ; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 13:18:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brdean@unx.sas.com) Received: from mozart (mozart.unx.sas.com [192.58.184.8]) by lamb.sas.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id QAA19899 for ; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 16:18:27 -0500 (EST) Received: from dean.pc.sas.com by mozart (5.65c/SAS/Domains/5-6-90) id AA20599; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 16:18:26 -0500 Received: (from brdean@localhost) by dean.pc.sas.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id QAA14724; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 16:18:25 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from brdean) From: Brian Dean Message-Id: <199903082118.QAA14724@dean.pc.sas.com> Subject: install using serial console? To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 16:18:25 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I understand that FreeBSD supports the use of the serial port as a console device. I would like to take advantage of this feature, however, I still need to be able to do new installs on these same machines from time to time. Are serial consoles supported in some way for 'sysinstall'ing on a new machine without having to have a keyboard/monitor connected? Is this supported out of the box, or does it, perhaps, require a special kernel for the boot disk to be built-in during the make release process? Is anyone doing this? Any help/pointers are appreciated! Thanks, -Brian -- Brian Dean Process Engineering brdean@unx.sas.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message