Installer on serial-console-only-embedded system

[Teske, Devin]

sysinstall had the ability to allow you to muck with /etc/ttys before rebooting to your installed OS.

This functionality is coming back slowly.

In 9.2-R you will be able to (somehow) bow out of the installation process after it's complete (e.g., "Ctrl-C" ??) and then run bsdconfig -- invoking the "TTYs" module, giving you a chance to change the settings before you reboot from your newly installed system.

Tighter Integration will follow in the years to come... but replacing a tool that had a 15-year run which did _all_ of this stuff, is/was not an overnight project. Rather, it's a journey!
-- 
Devin


On Aug 12, 2013, at 5:56 AM, Michael Sierchio wrote:

> You need to change /etc/ttys to turn off the virtual consoles and turn
> on a serial terminal.
> E.g.,
> 
> ttyv0   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"     xterm   off secure
> # Virtual terminals
> ttyv1   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"     xterm   off secure
> ttyv2   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"     xterm   off secure
> ttyv3   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"     xterm   off secure
> ttyv4   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"     xterm   off secure
> ttyv5   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"     xterm   off secure
> ttyv6   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"     xterm   off secure
> ttyv7   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"     xterm   off secure
> ttyv8   "/usr/local/bin/xdm -nodaemon"  xterm   off secure
> # Serial terminals
> # The 'dialup' keyword identifies dialin lines to login, fingerd etc.
> ttyu0   "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"   dialup  on  secure
> ttyu1   "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"   dialup  off secure
> ttyu2   "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"   dialup  off secure
> ttyu3   "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"   dialup  off secure
> # Dumb console
> dcons   "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"   vt100   off secure
> 
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 8:34 AM, CeDeROM <cederom at tlen.pl> wrote:
>> Hello :-)
>> 
>> With my friend Jacek we have tried to perform PXE installation of
>> FreeBSD 9 on an i386 embedded system for one project. This required
>> adding "-h" or "comconsole" to the /boot/loader.conf so the
>> input-output is done with serial console port, not video console.
>> However, after installation, on this embedded system with no video
>> console, system seems to be configured to use videoconsole by
>> default...
>> 
>> Is it possible to add this nice feature to the new installer that
>> would recognise if installation is done with serial-port-console and
>> then setup the installed system to work with serial-port-console by
>> default not the videoconsole? We could try it out on 9.2-RC2 if
>> possible :-)
>> 
>> Best regards! :-)
>> Tomek
>> 
>> --
>> CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info
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