Hi Martin,
If you are still having trouble with headless installs here is a link to
instructions for setting up a bsd.iso that outputs to serial for a headless
installation.
http://default-information.blogspot.com/2007/12/headless-freebsd-installation-cd.html
hope this helps,
Phil
Jonathan McKeown writes:
(tar now does this, I believe), add the line
console=comconsole
to boot/loader.conf in the directory which is the root of the CD, and then
make a new ISO and burn a new serial install CD.
When I do
tar vxf 6.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso
It mostly works as
Hi Martin
I often use the serial console for installs just to save digging out a screen
and keyboard - especially on servers which are going to run headless anyway.
What I do whenever I download release ISOs is unpack the disc-1 image to disk
(tar now does this, I believe), add the line
Watanabe Kazuhiro writes:
Try:
console=comconsole,vidconsole
boot
instead of boot -h.
First, thanks for an excellent suggestion. I tried it
and have not been successful so far. During the pause, I hit 6
and got control of the boot process. I typed
console=comconsole,vidconsole,
Hi,
At Tue, 18 Sep 2007 06:32:07 -0500,
Martin McCormick wrote:
As a computer user who happens to be blind, I have
always wanted to use the headless installation method to build
FreeBSD systems. After FreeBSD version 5, things seemed to go a
bit wrong and I am trying to figure out
As a computer user who happens to be blind, I have
always wanted to use the headless installation method to build
FreeBSD systems. After FreeBSD version 5, things seemed to go a
bit wrong and I am trying to figure out whether it is me not
doing something right or if there is a bug.
I posted the original message about the 6.2 headless
installs. I tried again on an IBM Netfinity server with SCSI
drives today and here is the last screen of boot messages from
the CDROM burned from the 6.2 ISO image:
sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
sio1: port may
