On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 08:35:39AM -0800, collver@softhome.net wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 04:30:54PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 06:09:19AM -0800, collver@softhome.net wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > 
> > > Have you ever installed NetBSD on a PC using a terminal that did not have
> > > line-drawing characters?
> > 
> > I did, over a serial console.
> 
> Did you have to take special steps, or is this in the generic install
> kernel on the boot floppy images at netbsd.org?

With the generic kernel, you just need to change the boot block.

> How does it know which
> serial port to use, or does it use all of them at once?

the boot block has hooks to find which serial port is connected; it can also
be hardwired in the bootblock.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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