Date: Sun, 8 Jan 1995 21:46:14 +0100 (MET) From: j@uriah.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Graphical installations and such... Message-ID: <199501082046.VAA28784@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> In-Reply-To: <29796.789524071@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jan 7, 95 04:14:31 pm
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Oh no, i don't reply to the chorus... :^)
As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
|
| .... Just think of a router, or an NFS
| server, or an NIS box - all possibly administered with little better
| than serial terminals (how well does Joerg's serial boot code work,
| anyway? :-).
It works for me on four machines, three thereof running in a produc-
tion environment.
Anyway it would be impossible to fit it together with the VGA/kbd boot
blocks, due to the space constraints (unless we would de-featurize
our boot blocks:).
The worst problem with it is that (AFAIK) only AMI BIOSses are able
to boot without any sort of graphics board at all.
--
cheers, J"org work: --- no longer ---
private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.sax.de
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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