Re: Cannot create custom FreeBSD 7.0 install CD for serial console

2008-10-05 Thread Carl
On Thu Oct 2 06:59:47 UTC 2008 Jonathan McKeown wrote: On a system running 6.2-RELEASE, with a 6.2-RELEASE Disc 1 in the CD drive but not mounted: mkdir serialcd tar xvfC /dev/acd0 serialcd These two commands created a directory tree in serialcd containing most of the contents of the CD.

Re: Cannot create custom FreeBSD 7.0 install CD for serial console

2008-10-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 01:26:37AM -0700, Carl wrote: On Thu Oct 2 06:59:47 UTC 2008 Jonathan McKeown wrote: On a system running 6.2-RELEASE, with a 6.2-RELEASE Disc 1 in the CD drive but not mounted: mkdir serialcd tar xvfC /dev/acd0 serialcd These two commands created a directory tree

Re: Cannot create custom FreeBSD 7.0 install CD for serial console

2008-10-02 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 01 October 2008 22:25:21 Carl wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 02:41:03AM -0700, Carl wrote: I've been trying to create a modified FreeBSD 7.0 install CD that will allow me to do installations entirely via the serial console on a headless system. Lots of

Cannot create custom FreeBSD 7.0 install CD for serial console

2008-10-01 Thread Carl
I've been trying to create a modified FreeBSD 7.0 install CD that will allow me to do installations entirely via the serial console on a headless system. Lots of digging on the Internet, reading the handbook, and I've gotten nowhere fast. The following process was my best hope, but it still

Re: Cannot create custom FreeBSD 7.0 install CD for serial console

2008-10-01 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 02:41:03AM -0700, Carl wrote: I've been trying to create a modified FreeBSD 7.0 install CD that will allow me to do installations entirely via the serial console on a headless system. Lots of digging on the Internet, reading the handbook, and I've gotten nowhere

Re: Cannot create custom FreeBSD 7.0 install CD for serial console

2008-10-01 Thread Carl
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 02:41:03AM -0700, Carl wrote: I've been trying to create a modified FreeBSD 7.0 install CD that will allow me to do installations entirely via the serial console on a headless system. Lots of digging on the Internet, reading the handbook, and