installing via serial

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awesome. I'll do that. thanks.

Thanks,
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kerry Hoath" <kerry@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 7:53 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 at tysdomain.com>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
> <speakup at 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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