On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 10:54:56PM -0700, Brook Milligan wrote:

> Or did you mean something else?

  I remembered incorrectly.  Just for fun I booted the install floppy to
refresh my memory.  The install kernel detected the serial ports and the
install floppy includes tip.

>    I installed on a lap top sans NIC and CD-ROM.  With FreeBSD I used the
>    single boot floppy and did the rest of the install through a serial port.
>    With NetBSD I had to write quite a few floppies and sit in front of the
>    machine swapping floppies.
> 
> No real need for this.  The problem is that sysinst does not let you
> configure the slip (or ppp) interface.  PR install/8344 (and a related
> one PR install/8349 for tip) lets sysint present the full list of
> interfaces so that you can configure and use slip or whatever.  The
> real solution is to integrate that functionality a bit better, but at
> least this will enable one with a bit of knowledge to get through the
> install from a serial line easier.

  Thanks for the solution. :)  I see that you ran into the same problem,
but had a bit if knowledge.  

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