Serial console install

Sławek Żak slawek.zak at gmail.com
Thu Apr 7 03:07:06 PDT 2005


Hi,

I'd like to ask what's the reason behind requiring a keyboard during
FreeBSD install. Headless configuration is the most common in
datacenters and toying with KVM and VGA cable is often a no-no
(distance in the issue my case).

Therefore why don't we introduce a prompt in the CD loader saying:

"Press any key to install from video console..."

Now wait 30s. If no key is pressed boot with console=comconsole. 

It would make my life sooo much easier and won't confuse noobs too much.

Thanks, /S
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Sławek Żak / UNIX Systems Administrator


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