From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Dec 12 16:51:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-d.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.13.43.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B70737B419 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 16:51:41 -0800 (PST) Received: by turtle.looksharp.net (Postfix, from userid 1003) id 290203EC1; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 19:52:28 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turtle.looksharp.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 260DFBAA6; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 19:52:28 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 19:52:27 -0500 (EST) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" To: Brett Glass Cc: Subject: Re: Headless HOWTO? In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20011212170231.04f0ac70@localhost> Message-ID: <20011212194648.Y53298-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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