Installer on serial-console-only-embedded system

[Kimmo Paasiala]

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 4:00 PM, CeDeROM <cederom at tlen.pl> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Michael Sierchio <kudzu at tenebras.com> wrote:
>> You need to change /etc/ttys to turn off the virtual consoles and turn
>> on a serial terminal.
>> (..)
>
> Thank you Michael for the hint! Do you think it would be sensible to
> put that functionality into a new installer to detect this kind of
> configuration and apply it over fresh system during install (just as
> it detects and verifies some partitioning formats)?
>
> Best regards! :-)
> Tomek
>
> --

You can easily detect that the system has a COM port. However, it is
very hard to detect that there is a working terminal attached to the
port.

-Kimmo