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Date:      Tue, 02 Dec 1997 16:00:05 -0800
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Out of Box experience (Was: Re: How is selection made of what goes into CDrom?) 
Message-ID:  <4835.881107205@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Dec 1997 23:43:31 %2B0100." <19971202234331.13864@uriah.heep.sax.de> 

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> > Why isn't it possible to run an install over a serial console?
> 
> Because sysinstall extensively relies on syscons features (like
> console switching).

Really?  It shouldn't, at least not in the non-VTY case.  It does go
to some trouble to try and figure out which it's running on - you
don't think it tries to switch consoles when you run it in an xterm
for example, do you? :-)

					Jordan



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