Subject: Re: Installing through serial console
To: Anders Dinsen <dinsen@danbbs.dk>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fb@enteract.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/15/1998 16:16:50
On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Anders Dinsen wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Oct 1998 01:55:49 -0400, Ken Hornstein wrote:
> >>Is installing through serial console possible? I'd be very interested
> ...
> >Yes, I've done it.  What you need to do is have another PC that
> >can build a NetBSD boot floppy with a serial console bootblock.  If
> >you need such a boot floppy and don't already have a NetBSD machine,
> >I could be persuaded to make one up :-)
> 
> Can you send me the configuration changes that need to be done to
> biosboot to enable it to use the serial console?

If you have -current, all you need to do is uncomment a couple of
lines in src/sys/arch/i386/stand/biosboot/Makefile. Documentation at
"MACHINE=i386 man 8 boot_console".