From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 1 12:48:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from merganser.its.uu.se (merganser.its.uu.se [130.238.6.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8763137B958 for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 12:48:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.csd.uu.se) Received: from regulus.student.UU.SE ([130.238.5.2]:42048 "HELO ertr1013.student.csd.uu.se") by merganser.its.uu.se with SMTP id ; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 21:48:04 +0200 Received: (qmail 7940 invoked by uid 1001); 1 Jun 2000 19:48:09 -0000 Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 21:48:09 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Tyler Spivey Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: serial terminal question please resopnd Message-ID: <20000601214809.A7882@student.csd.uu.se> Mail-Followup-To: Tyler Spivey , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000601174744.A5611@student.csd.uu.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from tyler@wapvi.bc.ca on Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 12:16:06PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 12:16:06PM -0700, Tyler Spivey wrote: > ok, you are wrong about most stuff should be installable: > i am trying to install over a ppp link and i gott ause ht the term > command in ppp, but it says to access ppp its on vty 3. Oops, I forgot about that case. Sorry. The installation is hardcoded to use vty 3 for ppp. > so am i totally screwd? If you have to use a serial console *and* have to install over a ppp link, using the normal installation program, then, yeah, you are probably screwed. Is it possible for you to install from CDROM instead ? Or have some friend help you with the installation ? (Once it is installed things should be quite usable over a serial link.) > > On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Erik Trulsson wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 06:29:04AM -0700, Tyler Spivey wrote: > > > how can i access vty3 from my serial port? i can't read the linux or > > > > I don't think you can. The installation program works on the assumption > > that you do sit at the console with full access to it. > > Do you really need to get at vty3 ? > > AFAIK you only need to go there if there are problems with the installation. > > Most (all?) stuff should be installable without needing to switch vty's. > > > > > freebsd install screen so igotta use this serial terminal, shoudl i plug > > > in the keyboard and see if i can get what types on the normal keyboard out > > > to my terminal > > > > No, you can either have a normal console or a serial console. Not both at > > the same time. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message