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Date:      Tue, 11 Apr 2000 13:45:25 +0100
From:      Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
To:        Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: somewhat random mostly-lockups in 5.0
Message-ID:  <20000411134525.A78232@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004100745200.1813-100000@green.dyndns.org>; from green@FreeBSD.org on Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 07:48:45AM -0400
References:  <20000409191702.P4381@fw.wintelcom.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004100745200.1813-100000@green.dyndns.org>

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On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 07:48:45AM -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > In otherwords, unplug your palm pilot and attach a console.
> 
> I'm going to get my friend to get a traceback and whatever else is
> possible.  He has a laptop and "null" serial cable to use, and he
> experiences these problems as much as I do; I'll just convince him
> to keep running the latest -CURRENT and get the serial console working.

"ptelnet" for the Palm will do a serial connection over the Hotsync cradle.
I have it on reasonable authority from a friend that they've booted FreeBSD
this way, interacting with the boot loader via the Palm as they go.

Not that I'm recommending this for day to day use, or anything, but if all
you have is a Palm. . .

N
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