From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Mar 22 15:12:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F33937B718; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 15:12:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f2MNCd647533; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 15:12:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 15:12:39 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Mike Smith Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.3beta status report Message-ID: <20010322151238.A47464@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <15034.32210.922514.879843@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <200103222238.f2MMcxs02824@mass.dis.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200103222238.f2MMcxs02824@mass.dis.org>; from msmith@freebsd.org on Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 02:38:58PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 02:38:58PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > What was discussed before was fixing sysinstall to enable a getty on Discussed, but no patches formed. :-) > /dev/ttyd0 *if* the install was being done on a serial console; this is > the only sane way to go about it. Personally I don't find that very satisfying. With Solaris and NetBSD/sparc, I can do a graphical install, remove the graphics hardware (ie, keyboard) and use serial console. Everything just works. The scheme proposed is limited. 4.3 will ship with a getty always on ttyd0. (yes, I know there is a small security issue to this) -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message