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Date:      Thu, 11 Apr 2002 16:50:02 +0300
From:      "Toomas Aas" <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee>
To:        "Jason Cribbins" <freebsdlist@kibserv.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: setup freebsd with no keyboard
Message-ID:  <200204111351.g3BDphm24320@lv.raad.tartu.ee>
In-Reply-To: <00c301c1e15e$77688b00$15841bd8@kibserv.org>

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Hi Jason!

On 11 Apr 02 at 9:40 you wrote:


> : OK, if you grep /var/run/dmesg.boot for 'rl0' on this new box, what
> : do you get?

> How is this done with no keyboard?

Good question :-) I would probably try mounting the HD in another 
computer as slave.

> I was kind of hoping I would be able to find a way to connect to the box
> without using IP (which is obviously not working) and avoid the entire
> processing of tearing the box apart to fix this thing.  But it seems the
> only route available at this point.

There should also be a possibility to use serial console, but I have 
never tried that so I don't know any details.

--
Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/
* Someday we'll look back on all this and plow into a parked car.


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