Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 09:47:58 -0600 (CST) From: Jacques Vidrine <nectar@NECTAR.COM> To: Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no> Cc: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Out of Box experience (Was: Re: How is selection made of what goes into CDrom?) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971202094531.299B-100000@kai.communique.net> In-Reply-To: <199712021431.PAA17764@bitbox.follo.net>
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Presumably sysintall will work fine over a serial console ... there may be some assumptions on the install floppy as it exists today, though. Of course this is all hearsay, I haven't tried it. So maybe I ought shut up :-) Just curious, Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com> On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Eivind Eklund wrote: > [Jacques Vidrine] > > > 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)? > > > [Jörg Wunsch] > > 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. > > Why isn't it possible to run an install over a serial console? I'm > running a similar application written using libdialog over a serial > console all the time. I haven't tested with the install floppies, but > can't see any important differences between the systems. > > I'm using a hacked 'tip' (allowing 8-bit characters but breaking a lot > of other things) on a FreeBSD console in the other end. > > Eivind. >
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