Re: n00b question regarding installation via serial console

2009-06-05 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 04 June 2009 17:28:56 Tim Judd wrote: On 6/4/09, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: Hello list, Is it possible to boot into the serial console from the installation CD, or must boot.flp be used as per make your own CD add file boot.config containing

n00b question regarding installation via serial console

2009-06-04 Thread John .
Hello list, Is it possible to boot into the serial console from the installation CD, or must boot.flp be used as per http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/install-advanced.html ? (the machine has no floppy drive (yet) thanks -- John ___

Re: n00b question regarding installation via serial console

2009-06-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hello list, Is it possible to boot into the serial console from the installation CD, or must boot.flp be used as per make your own CD add file boot.config containing just one line: -P to existing, make sure you it's bootable (mkisofs -b boot/cdboot -no-emul-boot) and record refer to

Re: n00b question regarding installation via serial console

2009-06-04 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 04 June 2009 15:46:11 John . wrote: Hello list, Is it possible to boot into the serial console from the installation CD, or must boot.flp be used as per http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/install-advanced.html ? (the machine has no floppy drive (yet) It's possible -

Re: n00b question regarding installation via serial console

2009-06-04 Thread John .
Hi, Thanks everyone, I know what to do now :D -- John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: n00b question regarding installation via serial console

2009-06-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
man boot.config Sure that's enough? ttys is still going to mark the ttyd0 line as off and won't present a tty/login then. no. it's set to console in installator IMHO. that's universal. I think it's more complicated than that. And what if the boot process hangs for some reason? no

Re: n00b question regarding installation via serial console

2009-06-04 Thread Tim Judd
On 6/4/09, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: Hello list, Is it possible to boot into the serial console from the installation CD, or must boot.flp be used as per make your own CD add file boot.config containing just one line: -P to existing, make sure you it's