Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 22:16:01 -0600 (CST) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty Jr.) Cc: ambrisko@tcs.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syscons driver Message-ID: <199512300416.WAA09248@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199512300141.RAA04127@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty Jr." at Dec 29, 95 05:41:11 pm
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> >>> Douglas Ambrisko said: > > Amancio Hasty Jr. writes: > > | Now, I am going to sit on my corner to see what are the arguments for > > | not writing a systall which can run with X .... Now I am curious 8) > > > > I'd like to be able to install my gateway FreeBSD box through the serial > > console tied to my main FreeBSD box. > > > > Doug A. > > Yeap, I would like to use one of my shoe strings to tied my boxes over here > to do net install 8) > > It seems to me like if you got the two boxes close enough that you ought to > be able to clone the disk on one box and then move the disk to your other > box. I would do that rather than bothering with installing over a serial > port . That's not always feasible or possible (different types of disks or controllers, for example). I hate having to take apart a machine to drop a graphics card into it just so I can install... (ok ok ok I admit it, all of my boxes have graphics cards right now, but the ultimate goal is to run mostly serial consoles, because going around the back of the equipment racks and plugging and unplugging monitor and keyboard extenders to gain console access to a box is silly). It's bad enough that sysinstall seems to be linked to syscons ... ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199512300416.WAA09248>