how to install freebsd on HP rx2600 server

[David Rhodus]

On Nov 11, 2003, at 10:19 PM, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 10:29:09AM +0800, chen bo wrote:
>>    i have a HP rx2600 server ,which has only usb keyboard.
>>
>>    because the reason :
>> 	We cannot have a console (i.e. VGA and keyboard) on ia64 because our
>> console code is PC specific. We probe USB devices, including 
>> keyboards,
>> but we cannot use them yet.
>>
>>     how to install freebsd5.1 release on the server ?
>
> Serial console.

Is there any chance of that being changed anytime soon? That has to be
one of the major things stopping me for ordering a ia64 machine to play 
with....

-DR