From owner-freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 12 14:15:06 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B36D284 for ; Mon, 12 Aug 2013 14:15:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nwhitehorn@freebsd.org) Received: from smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu (wmauth3.doit.wisc.edu [144.92.197.226]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 31E442143 for ; Mon, 12 Aug 2013 14:15:06 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Received: from avs-daemon.smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu by smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7u4-27.01(7.0.4.27.0) 64bit (built Aug 30 2012)) id <0MRF007007JYQH00@smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu> for freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org; Mon, 12 Aug 2013 09:14:59 -0500 (CDT) X-Spam-PmxInfo: Server=avs-3, Version=6.0.3.2322014, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.2.2107409, Antispam-Data: 2013.8.12.140332, SenderIP=0.0.0.0 X-Spam-Report: AuthenticatedSender=yes, SenderIP=0.0.0.0 X-Spam-Score-Internal: ******* Received: from wanderer.tachypleus.net (i66.cc7221225.sbw.us [72.21.225.66]) by smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7u4-27.01(7.0.4.27.0) 64bit (built Aug 30 2012)) with ESMTPSA id <0MRF005JU8WXNK10@smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu> for freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org; Mon, 12 Aug 2013 09:14:58 -0500 (CDT) Message-id: <5208EDE2.6050400@freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 09:14:58 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130811 Thunderbird/17.0.8 To: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installer on serial-console-only-embedded system References: In-reply-to: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Sysinstall Work List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 14:15:06 -0000 On 08/12/13 08:25, CeDeROM wrote: > On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Kimmo Paasiala wrote: >> You can easily detect that the system has a COM port. However, it is >> very hard to detect that there is a working terminal attached to the >> port. >> -Kimmo > Hey Kimmo :-) Wouldn't "who" or "w" show that what terminal is > user/installer running on? :-P Sorry I don't have that device for > testing at hand, but try to verify that with some older hardware :-) > > Best regards! :-) > Tomek > The tricky part is that this is very platform dependent and we have chosen to make the default be "off" on x86 for serial consoles. At the end of the install process, you are given an option to edit the files on the new system, of course, but we may also want to revisit these defaults (serial consoles are on by default on most other architectures). -Nathan