Re: Serial console install

From: Doug White <dwhite_at_gumbysoft.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 22:20:19 -0700 (PDT)
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, [ISO-8859-2] 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).

If your system supports BIOS-level console redirection, use it. Then you
can yack at loader all you want.

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Received on Fri Apr 08 2005 - 03:20:19 UTC

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