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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!phaedrus.kralizec.net.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2.2 Upgrade on Serial Console Only Based System Date: 9 Jan 1997 23:30:09 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <5b3v21$ji6@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <19970108151000.KAA05448@ladder01.news.aol.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 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33703 docsource1@aol.com (DocSource1) wrote: > Is there a way to make a 2.2 boot/install disk that will > work for a serial console only based system? Any > points in the right direction would be greatly appreciated. > (I could not find any info in the FAQS/Handbook). Sadly no, unless you can upgrade from sources. I always meant to pursue this, but failed to have a nice idea how to emulate multiple virtual consoles on a single serial line. (No, please don't suggest `screen' or something along this line, it must fit onto the boot floppy which is already tight in space.) -- 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. ;-)