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Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1995 00:10:46 -0700
From: Joe McGuckin <joe@via.net>
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Subject: Headless/keyboardless booting...
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Can freebsd boot without a keyboard or video card? Can a 
serial port be configured as the console port for diagnostic
and boot messages? I'd like to put a 486 in a closet & not 
waste a keyboard and video card/monitor. I'd like the option
of plugging in a noteboot to the serial port if it ever developed
problems that couldn't be fixed over a telnet connection.

I'm looking for similar functionality that I get with a headless
Sun workstation.

-p