From: "Kerry Hoath" <kerry@gotss.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: installing via serial
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:07:45 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <001201c8ed6c$bc689300$2518a8c0@bouncy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17E140B9EE4640B6A77214F534D7B717@golly>
he's using a null modem to another computer;
9600 makes the ncurses based installer screens come up nice and slow.
Regards, Kerry.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Stockton" <nstockton@gmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 2:51 PM
Subject: Re: installing via serial
wouldn't 9600 bod be better sence most hardware synths use 9600 bod?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kerry Hoath" <kerry@gotss.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 9:53 PM
Subject: Re: installing via serial
> Ok here is how I do the distributions by serial that support it although
> this only works for real serial ports in the box not those on usb to
> serial
> or pci serial cards.
>
> Look at the cd image and in particular the config for isolinux.
> Find out the default lables and kernel names, for example the ubuntu
> server
> disk has linux and expert.
>
> Now at the boot: prompt you simply do
> label console=ttyS0,38400
>
> example
> expoert console=ttyS0,38400
>
> I have done this for Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora core and Centos.
>
> No idea if slackware or gentoo have serial support and serial console
> support in the default kernels.
> Regards, Kerry.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tyler Littlefield" <tyler@tysdomain.com>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
> <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 4:06 AM
> Subject: installing via serial
>
>
> Hello list,
> I'd like to be able to do a self-install of debian, and other OS's as
> well.
> Is there a way that I can make any of the following use a serial install?
> I can get SecureCRT and get me a null-modem cable and a pci-serial card,
> and
> run the install through SecureCRT--and it might be better than buying an
> external synth:
> slack,
> gentu,
> debian,
> mandrake,
> fedora
> also bsd would be fun to play with--if I had serial, I wouldn't have to
> rely
> on ssh as well.
>
> Thanks,
> ~~TheCreator~~
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Tyler Littlefield
` Tom Moore
` Tyler Littlefield
` CentOS Dawes, Stephen
` CentOS Tom Moore
` CentOS Trevor Astrope
` installing via serial Kerry Hoath
` Tyler Littlefield
` Nick Stockton
` Kerry Hoath [this message]
` John Heim
` Kerry Hoath
` Tyler Littlefield
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