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Date:      Mon, 24 Jul 1995 17:16:40 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        joe@via.net (Joe McGuckin)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Headless/keyboardless booting...
Message-ID:  <199507240746.RAA29431@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199507240710.AAA04047@mustang.via.net> from "Joe McGuckin" at Jul 24, 95 00:10:46 am

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Joe McGuckin stands accused of saying:
> Can freebsd boot without a keyboard or video card? Can a 
> serial port be configured as the console port for diagnostic
> and boot messages? I'd like to put a 486 in a closet & not 
> waste a keyboard and video card/monitor. I'd like the option
> of plugging in a noteboot to the serial port if it ever developed
> problems that couldn't be fixed over a telnet connection.

In principle yes; I've noticed that some systems have problems booting
without a keyboard though.

> -p

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