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Subject: help with serial boot?
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could someone give me a bit of help with getting the FreeBSD boot to work
with my serial line?

i have a nullmodem cable set up between two computers, one if a FreeBSD
box (2.2-Stable), the other a winbloze 95 PC.

i have the serial cable attached to the second serial port on the freebsd
box.

sending data over via "cat somefile > /dev/ttyd1" works as well as in the
opposite direction, but i was unable to decypher the commands to the 
"boot:"
prompt enough for me to get the boot to come across the serial line...

can anyone help me with this?

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