On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 11:20:51PM +0200, randy wrote:
> i am trying to install netbsd 1.6.1 on a 486 with only 8 MB RAM, 800
> MB HD, 3com 509 etherlink nic, but no cdrom. unfortunately i cannot
> use a keyboard anymore on this pc - i have tried 3 and none of them
> worked (even though they work fine on other machines).

There ought to be a simple solution for serial console, and what
you tried ought to be it (or very close), though it seems there's a
bug that causes it to revert to vga console.

Meanwhile, there's also another option: put the hard disk in another
machine, install there, and then move it back.

--
Dan.