From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (qmail 31225 invoked from network); 28 Nov 1996 00:33:04 -0000 Received: from felix.dircon.co.uk (@193.128.224.10) by mail2.redhat.com with SMTP; 28 Nov 1996 00:33:03 -0000 Received: by felix.dircon.co.uk id AA13260 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for ); Wed, 27 Nov 1996 23:54:54 GMT Received: from trix.dircon.co.uk(194.112.46.67) by amnesiac via smap (V1.3) id sma013229; Wed Nov 27 23:54:19 1996 Received: (from gps@localhost) by trix.dircon.co.uk (8.7.5/8.6.12) id XAA00371; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 23:52:09 GMT Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 23:52:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Graham Swallow To: blinux-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: Debian installation - interested? In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: 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 -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Linux Info Pages: http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/Raven Raven Devel Site: http://beyond.malmo.lth.se/~gps/Raven/ Raven dial up: http://trix.dircon.co.uk/ Click here --> http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~trix/ --------------------------------------------------------------