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On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 09:27:03AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> Maybe you could add text to the handbook to say this, but it is already 
> implicitly assumed in the handbook section you are referring to since it 
> assumes you can safely compile a new kernel, etc. [...]  If we were to 
> document those every time it would clutter documentation making it harder for 
> someone who is new to FreeBSD to simply setup a serial console on a box that 
> they just installed.

It sounds like what we need is a tutorial, and (somewhere else?) the extended
version.  People seem to trip over things like this fairly often; at least
this way we could refer them to a standard text.

No, I don't have the backgroud, or cycles, to write it :-)

mcl