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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!cs.tu-berlin.de!informatik.uni-bremen.de!nordwest.pop.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Redirecting /dev/console ? Date: 24 Jan 1996 00:07:55 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4e3t8r$6th@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4e18o6$s70@newdelph.cig.mot.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 kadow@komondor.cig.mot.com (Kevin Kadow) writes: > Under FreeBSD, how difficult is it to redirect the console to a serial port > so as to set up a headless workstation? Enter -h on the keyboard at the boot prompt. Or, to make it permanent: cd /sys/i386/boot/biosboot vi Makefile # uncomment the -DFORCE_COMCONSOLE line make make install disklabel -B sd0 Note that the latter is likely to break a ``dangerously dedicated'' disk however, since it dumps a silly fdisk table over the existing one. The resulting disk will no longer be accepted as a `sliced' one, so convert your /dev/sd0s1* entries in /etc/fstab (if there are any) into /dev/sd0* entries before. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)