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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!caen!nic.umass.edu!ymir.cs.umass.edu!gaia!doyle From: doyle@gaia (Jim Doyle) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Headless configuration for NetBSD 0.9 ? Date: 24 Oct 1993 16:45:59 GMT Organization: CS Dept., Umass-Amherst Lines: 13 Message-ID: <2aebg7INNlnj@ymir.cs.umass.edu> Reply-To: doyle@cs.umass.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: gaia.cs.umass.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0] I want to use NetBSD on a very bare machine to act as a cheap gateway router. I have a 386/33 8MB motherboard, NE2000 , Adaptec 1542 and a 16550 based async serial board. I do not want to use a keyboard, PC framebuffer (cga/mga/ega), monitor, floppy. I have an extra 80MB SCSI drive that should more than adequately hold a minimal UNIX config, dp-2.3 + gated and enough room to throw log files to monitor the gateway. Can I config a kernel to use a UART port as the system console rather than the usual PC keyboard/local display ? ... Jim Doyle