From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 17 11:30:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA05718 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 11:30:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from styx.captech.com (firewall-user@styx.captech.com [207.33.153.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA05713 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 11:30:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from button@captech.com) Received: by styx.captech.com; id OAA20806; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 14:31:44 -0500 (EST) Received: from siva.captech.com(192.168.10.2) by styx.captech.com via smap (3.2) id xma020796; Mon, 17 Nov 97 14:31:17 -0500 Received: from hotlips.captech.com (hotlips [192.168.20.41]) by siva.captech.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA27114 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 11:29:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from captech.com by hotlips.captech.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id LAA09575; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 11:26:02 -0800 Message-ID: <34709A4A.8150495C@captech.com> Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 11:26:02 -0800 From: Russ Button X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: setting a serial port as system console Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm considering using a PC with FreeBSD as a web server. I'm going to be co-locating it at my company, so it is essential that I minimize the "footprint" it takes up. I want to configure it so that a serial port, COM1 or COM2 I suppose, will be the system console. I anticipate NOT having a video board in the machine, but to run it headless without a monitor or keyboard. Is this doable? It is something I can readily do on a Sun machine. Russ Button