Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 19:52:27 -0500 (EST) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Headless HOWTO? Message-ID: <20011212194648.Y53298-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20011212170231.04f0ac70@localhost>
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On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Brett Glass wrote: >Is there a "headless HOWTO" for FreeBSD? I'm setting up a box which >will eventually have to run headless (I can stick a VGA in temporarily), >and am not sure how best to set up /etc/ttys and compile the kernel for >maximum efficiency. (It'd be nice if I could strip out all video, keyboard, >and mouse support to make the kernel nice and lean.) I'd read sio(4) which gives a flag to make a given serial port the permanent console. That should be all you need. Otherwise boot -h at the loader prompt will switch between consoles. If you don't have a keyboard or mouse plugged in it should default to sio0 as the console. You might look into a motherboard like some of the newer Supermicro's which have BIOS support for serial console as well. It's nice not to need a monitor for that stuff. Brandon D. Valentine -- "Iam mens praetrepidans avet vagari." - G. Valerius Catullus, Carmina, XLVI To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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