From: Graham Swallow <gps@trix.dircon.co.uk>
To: blinux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Debian installation - interested?
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 23:52:09 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.961127233645.253C-100000@trix.dircon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.94.961127164817.19143A-100000@Ocean.CAM.ORG>
On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Nikhil Nair wrote:
> > or 2) be OK?
>
> What I think is best is to have a rootdisk wich starts a getty on both
> COM1 and COM2. It is also best to have a dumb terminal installation
> script (easier to track with a screen review software). It could be set
> on a separate rootdisk or just make the serial port login active on an
> already existing rootdisk... But since COM1 and COM2 are driven with a
> getty, the terminal could then be attached to any of those two without
> having to make a selection.
I don't suppose most people will have a mouse on COM1,
but COM2 would normally be used for the extern modem
or serial wire. LILO has low BAUD rate support,
which means you have to mess about at 9600 BAUD
which is plenty fast enough for screens, but as soon as you get
pppd running, you'd switch to 11.5 K/S and
get access to NFS files, telnet, multi-screens
and your own system (or stay with a TTY emulator).
As for the tty installation script, what about
dpkg -i name1
dpkg -i name2
Slackware would be (something like)
installpkg name1.tgz
Before then sort out /etc/fstab manually,
and run mke2fs manually. Then copy over your collection
of /etc/hosts files (if they weren't the first thing you copied over).
An alternative, is to install the minimum bases set that boots
comportably, pack it into one tar file, arrange for it to
appear on CDROM and wake up from there.
The support you need to get the kernel boot messages onto
the serial line is either new or pending. Good luck!
Graham gps@trix.dircon.co.uk
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