From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 2 13: 7:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cliff.i-plus.net (cliff.i-plus.net [209.100.20.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F42537B424 for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 13:07:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from abyss (abyss.dashit.net [209.100.22.250]) by cliff.i-plus.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 857B64197; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 16:07:13 -0400 (EDT) From: "Troy Settle" To: "Victor R. Cardona" , Subject: RE: installing on a system without a monitor? Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 16:05:50 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <39B19C83.8DFBCCCF@home.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG For accessing BIOS, you need to get a MB that supports this. Intel makes a few I believe. For installing FreeBSD on a headless system, it's my understanding that if there's no keyboard detected, the kernel will default to a serial console. I'm not sure what speed this runs at, but it's probably 9600 8n1. You'll need to try it to find out for sure. -- Troy Settle Pulaski Networks 540.994.4254 ** -----Original Message----- ** From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG ** [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Victor R. ** Cardona ** Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2000 8:34 PM ** To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ** Subject: installing on a system without a monitor? ** ** ** Hi everyone, ** ** Can someone please point me to any documentation, or give me any ** instructions on installing FBSD on a headless system? I also ** need to be ** able to access the bios on this machine, so that I can change some ** settings. Is this possible? ** ** Thanks, ** Victor R. Cardona ** ** ** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org ** with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ** ** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message