Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 10:56:09 -0500 From: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell PowerEdge1850 Won't Take a Freebsd4.11 Installation. Message-ID: <200508031556.j73Fu9T3093299@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
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Lowell Gilbert writes: >Well, I'd certainly expect 5.4 or later, with the ATA and RAID >improvements, to work better, but you're right that it kind of >sounds more like the CD is giving you the problems. > >Check the emergency shell (alt-F4, I think?) for any messages... Thank you very much. I have downloaded the iso images for 5.4 that I need to get started: 5.4-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso 5.4-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso 5.4-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso and discovered another surprise. There appears to be no headless option as in boot -h although I may have missed it. A google search turned up a pretty good article on how to make a headless boot.flp floppy for 5.4. Is there any way to make the standard boot CD come up on a serial port? The instructions for making the boot.flp image assume you already have FreeBSD5.4 installed somewhere which I don't yet have. I did see a bootsio file on the bootonly CD so that looks like a possibility. As a computer user who happens to be blind, the ability to do a cold start from a serial port, preferably from the boot/installation cd saves lots of time and tinkering. Most of us are in this business because we love to tinker, but sometimes there is a job to be done and the faster it gets done, the better. Thanks again. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations Group
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