On Do, 7.04.2005, 13:23, Eric Anderson sagte: > Sławek Żak wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'd like to ask what's the reason behind requiring a keyboard during >> FreeBSD install. Headless configuration is the most common in >> datacenters and toying with KVM and VGA cable is often a no-no >> (distance in the issue my case). >> >> Therefore why don't we introduce a prompt in the CD loader saying: >> >> "Press any key to install from video console..." >> >> Now wait 30s. If no key is pressed boot with console=comconsole. >> >> It would make my life sooo much easier and won't confuse noobs too much. > > Maybe so, but then people who do have video consoles plugged in would have > to hit a key to keep going. > True. But people with a Monitor and a Keyboard connected could hit Enter. People with a headless Server just don't have a possiblity to hit any key to initalize the installation the way they want. Isn't it possible to send out the output of FreeBSD's bootloader to VGA and serial console ? This would be perfect. We could have a point in our bootmenu to hit a specific key for serial console install, or for VGA based install. But I believe for the time being it's not possible to have the same output on console and vga. On the other hand, would it be possible to create a PXE Image with serial console enabled ? Usually if you have servers which are headless they are additionally pretty far away... Network Boot is the way to go :) > Why not just read this: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-advanced.html > well, this is an option, but however, you have to change the floppies all the time. Floppies suck ;) Just some thoughts... Best Regards and good luck, MarianReceived on Thu Apr 07 2005 - 09:48:17 UTC
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