From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 1 14:39:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA26960 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 14:39:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA26953 for ; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 14:39:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id XAA09061 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 23:39:06 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.5) id XAA11575; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 23:22:53 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19971201232253.06545@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 23:22:53 +0100 From: J Wunsch To: "hackers@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Out of Box experience (Was: Re: How is selection made of what goes into CDrom?) Reply-To: Joerg Wunsch References: <19971201020226.10663@vmunix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88 In-Reply-To: ; from Jacques Vidrine on Mon, Dec 01, 1997 at 12:42:59PM -0600 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jacques Vidrine wrote: > How does this work on a serial console? Is it currently possible to > install FreeBSD with only a serial console anyway (I haven't tried)? Unfortunately not. I'd really like to see this feature in the next generation installer. I haven't looked at TurboVision yet, but i hope it has more of the potential that's required to do this. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)