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From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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Subject: Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer? 
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> done a ton of FreeBSD installs the headless way, I hope any new
> installer will not absolutely require a GUI. If it can run in a
> GUI mode, fine, but I hope it will still let one connect via a
> serial port and direct the process that way.

as you can do everything easily in text mode, it just points out that GUI 
installer is nonsense.