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Subject: n00b question regarding installation via serial console
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Hello list,

Is it possible to boot into the serial console from the installation
CD, or must boot.flp be used as per
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/install-advanced.html ?
(the machine has no floppy drive (yet)

thanks
-- 
John