Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 16:46:42 +0900 From: Watanabe Kazuhiro <CQG00620@nifty.ne.jp> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: Tom Moore <tom@tomstroubleshooting.com> Subject: Re: Serial based install Message-ID: <20060513074410.F0A8ABEE3@mail.asahi-net.or.jp> In-Reply-To: <008101c675f0$0a881890$6603a8c0@zeus> References: <008101c675f0$0a881890$6603a8c0@zeus>
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Hi, At Fri, 12 May 2006 14:15:20 -0400, Tom Moore wrote: > Hi guys. > How do I force the FreeBSD to do a serial port based install? > I'm installing on to a laptop, but want to control the install from a serial > port on another machine because I can not see the screen on the laptop. > I tried modifying the boot.flp image and putting a file called boot.conf > with the following line in it: > /boot/loader -h > This didn't seem to work? > Am I modifying the wrong image for this or should I modify one of the kernel > images? > > Please advise what I should do next. > > Thanks, > Tom Try to insert the following line in your /boot/loader.conf at the first line: console="comconsole" See the FreeBSD Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html --- Watanabe Kazuhiro (CQG00620@nifty.ne.jp)
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