From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 16 22:52:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dewey.paralynx.net (dewey.mindlink.net [204.174.16.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DF1637B430 for ; Sun, 16 Jun 2002 22:52:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [198.69.4.139] (helo=rcreighton.org) by dewey.paralynx.net with esmtp (Exim 3.14 #8) id 17JpQy-0004fC-00; Sun, 16 Jun 2002 22:52:12 -0700 Message-ID: <3D0D1690.9080702@rcreighton.org> Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 22:52:00 +0000 From: Randall Creighton User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020608 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Corey Snow , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.6R headless install References: <3D0D08D8.1305.FDDD108@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks alot, that took care of that. The install.txt on the iso images, under tips for serial console users, says you can use boot -h at the prompt after hitting the space bar. I know this worked in 4.5 -R, but it certainly does not now. I will keep better track of the handbook from now on : ) Corey Snow wrote: >On 16 Jun 2002, at 21:00, Randall Creighton wrote: > > > >>Hello, >>can anybody confirm a problem I'm having with 4.6 Release. I've tried to >>do a headless install by typing boot -h at the boot prompt. The machine >>is a 486 with keyboard attached and no moniter. I am booting from >>floppies and I have verified my hardware by using the 4.5 Release. That >>seems to work fine. Did they change the settings? or is it broke? or am >>I broke? : ) >> >> >> >This should give you the steps to set up your boot and root floppies >for a headless install: > >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-advanced.html > >Regards, > >Corey > > > > >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