From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 17 17:00:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA29937 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 17:00:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA29927 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 17:00:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA11199; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 17:00:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 17:00:29 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Russ Button cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: setting a serial port as system console In-Reply-To: <34709A4A.8150495C@captech.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Russ Button wrote: > 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. This is easy to do on FreeBSD too. Just build a kernel with options options COMCONSOLE options FORCE_COMCONSOLE This way the comconsole will be used regardless, with or without a video card. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major