Subject: Re: monitorless/keyboardless netbsd config?
To: Brook Milligan <brook@trillium.NMSU.Edu>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/17/1996 00:04:38
Brook Milligan writes:
> Is it possible to configure a netbsd/i386 kernel so that it requires
> neither a monitor nor a keyboard?  I'd like to set up a box to hang
> off the net for compute service, but don't want any console stuff (at
> least once I verify it is working the way it should).

If you examine the boot blocks, etc., you will see that there is
indeed some limited support available for running off a serial
console. I wouldn't say its all one would like, but it mostly works. I
would not recommend running without at least a serial console,
however.

Perry