Subject: Re: Nice to see NetBSD mentioned. However...
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: None <jchacon@genuity.net>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 01/08/2001 20:01:22
>> 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.

I've also recently started committing patches to build a large floppy set with
serial bootblocks, as well as patching sysinst to ask which type of bootblocks
you want installed. (I have 2 multia's I install over serial all the time).

James