All a serial console is is a computer running a terminal program like Minicom on unix or hyperterminal in windows. The only BSD I have had any experience installing was netbsd (I needed it to run a Mop server so I could netboot a microvax), and it had a text installer that was really easy to do over serial. On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 02:33:23AM -0700, Tony Baechler wrote: > Alex Snow wrote: > >I was able to install netbsd without sited assistence a while back, > >and I believe there is a way to do this with freebsd. All I did was > >use a serial console, with Minicom under linux. > > > > > Yes, I forgot to mention use of a serial console. I don't have one and > thus have no experience with using it. I read here that it can be done > that way but again I haven't tried because I don't have one. How much > does it cost and how does it work? Do you just plug it into a serial > port and get speech? They seem to be popular and one might be useful to > have if it isn't expensive. > > Getting back to BSD installation, I can't comment on anything but > FreeBSD but it uses a text installer so perhaps it would be possible to > install via an emulator such as Bochs with a curses interface. NetBSD > claims to run on anything including the Vax so I'm sure it has a text > installer that could run in an emulator. If I try BSD again, I think I > would go with NetBSD just because it seems to be more historical > regarding older BSD software and does run on platforms which I've > certainly never heard of, far more than Linux. Either way, there is no > chance in the near future that Speakup will run on BSD because Speakup > is a set of Linux kernel modules. > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Anyone who thinks UNIX is intuitive should be forced to write 5000 lines of code using nothing but vi or emacs. AAAAACK! -- Discussion on the intuitiveness of commands, especially Emacs
