From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 23 14:35:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA08317 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 14:35:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA08306; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 14:35:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA01224; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 14:34:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199807232134.OAA01224@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Pia Vernon cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, max@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 23 Jul 1998 11:53:20 CDT." <3.0.5.32.19980723115320.007b1e50@purdue.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 14:34:30 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Max; I copied you on this because if anyone knows about how to make this happen, you do. > I want to install 2.2.7 on one of my machines. I have to install it over a > serial port because I am blind and need to read the screen during install. > My speech software runs under dos. Thus, i must install it on my new > machine from my dos box. I'm not sure how to install it on a machine im not > physically at. FreeBSD supports using the first serial port on your system as the console port. If you don't have a video card in the system, it will use the serial port instead. Then you simply connect the serial port from the FreeBSD system to your DOS system, and use a DOS terminal program to provide you with a console. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message