Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 14:34:30 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Pia Vernon <pvernon@purdue.edu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, max@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question Message-ID: <199807232134.OAA01224@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 23 Jul 1998 11:53:20 CDT." <3.0.5.32.19980723115320.007b1e50@purdue.edu>
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Max; I copied you on this because if anyone knows about how to make this happen, you do. > I want to install 2.2.7 on one of my machines. I have to install it over a > serial port because I am blind and need to read the screen during install. > My speech software runs under dos. Thus, i must install it on my new > machine from my dos box. I'm not sure how to install it on a machine im not > physically at. FreeBSD supports using the first serial port on your system as the console port. If you don't have a video card in the system, it will use the serial port instead. Then you simply connect the serial port from the FreeBSD system to your DOS system, and use a DOS terminal program to provide you with a console. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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