From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 8 12:59:18 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id MAA03690 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 8 Jan 1995 12:59:18 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA03680 for ; Sun, 8 Jan 1995 12:59:06 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA05912; Sun, 8 Jan 1995 22:00:00 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9-s1) with UUCP id VAA15609 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 8 Jan 1995 21:59:59 +0100 Received: by bonnie.tcd-dresden.de (8.6.8/8.6.6) id VAA28784; Sun, 8 Jan 1995 21:46:14 +0100 From: j@uriah.sax.de (J Wunsch) Message-Id: <199501082046.VAA28784@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> Subject: Re: Graphical installations and such... To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sun, 8 Jan 1995 21:46:14 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: <29796.789524071@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jan 7, 95 04:14:31 pm X-Phone: +49-351-8141 137 Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.sax.de X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 857 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)