Re: [LUG] Is there any linux that can be installed via serial port

[Alex Charrett <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 16:37, Jon Still wrote:
> > Subject says it all really.
>
> Sure, just find a nice Sun box, unplug the keyboard and shove a dumb 
> terminal on serial port A :)
>
> > I have a maxtor box with no keyboard or graphics card, so I need a 
> > distro that will install over a serial port.
>
> Oh, you mean on *intel* hardware...
>
> I would imagine you can hack about with a distro to make the install 
> kernel have support for a console on serial port.  Not sure how that'd 
> work with things like the virtual terminals that most install programs 
> seem to set up for other info, shells, etc.

I'm sure I remember reading the kernel docs about serial consoles a
while ago and I *think* that the kernel will direct all output to the
ttyS0/COM1 if there is no graphics adapter present in the system.

Alex.
(*HOW* much mail?)


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