From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 18 16:45:05 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C4E116A534 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:45:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from robin@reportlab.com) Received: from relay00.pair.com (relay00.pair.com [209.68.5.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B0E9943D64 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:45:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from robin@reportlab.com) Received: (qmail 82361 invoked from network); 18 Sep 2006 16:45:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.3?) (unknown) by unknown with SMTP; 18 Sep 2006 16:45:00 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 217.196.247.135 Message-ID: <450ECD39.9030106@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:45:45 +0100 From: Robin Becker User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: serial console install X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:45:05 -0000 Hi, my helpful supplier says "If you connect to the serial console and then turn on the machine from the power cycler the machine should boot up to a syslinux boot prompt, which will let you fire up the FreeBSD installer." and when this syslinux thing boots up I see the possibility to boot into a freebsd installer. I assume that I will be able to see the installer in my serial console and will be able to do the normal install, but do I get the opportunity to do some editing of /boot/loader.conf & /etc/ttys to allow the HD boot to show up in my console? -- Robin Becker