Message-ID: <3A2289CB.204AA0B@trium-rd.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 17:20:27 +0100
From: Benoit POSTE
Message-ID: <3A228815.910B7DE7@gypsyfarm.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 11:13:09 -0500
From: zentara
Hello all ... I've been lurking around for a while ... and finally decided to make my first post (after trying to read a FAQ I could not find). Here is my question: I have a (rather) old box, on which I'd like to install suse 7.0 so that I could use it as a firewall (sort of). Problem is: It has two ethernet NE2000 PCI cards, a keyboard, a (hopefully) bootable CD-player, but no monitor :/. Considering that I have a laptop (thus no monitor I could borrow from it) with Suse 7.0 and Win98 installed, is there any way I could do kind of a remote installation? I suppose network installation has no chance to work (maybe I'm wrong) ... but would it be possible to get the monitor output through a serial cable to a window terminal on my laptop or something like that for instance? Any suggestion?
This answer was given a few weeks ago concerning how to see all boot
messages.
It should work for your install.
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Re: [SLE] Boot Messages
From: Rafael E. Herrera"
Message-ID: <3A229AD0.AD6C7988@trium-rd.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 18:33:04 +0100
From: Benoit POSTE
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3. Boot linux on the machine you want to monitor with:
LILO: linux console=ttyS0,9600n8
The above means that all console messages go to the first serial port. The default settings are 9600 bauds, 8 bits, no parity, so the above is a little redundant, but you can use it to up the speed.
Hum, since I am going to do an install, is there a way I can set this when booting from the CD or do you think it will be automatically detected?
Message-ID: <3A2293C1.3A8BE758@gypsyfarm.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:02:57 -0500
From: zentara
zentara wrote:
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3. Boot linux on the machine you want to monitor with:
LILO: linux console=ttyS0,9600n8
The above means that all console messages go to the first serial port. The default settings are 9600 bauds, 8 bits, no parity, so the above is a little redundant, but you can use it to up the speed.
Hum, since I am going to do an install, is there a way I can set this when booting from the CD or do you think it will be automatically detected?
Oh yeah, that's a gotcha isn't it? I would try passing that parameter when you boot the machine from the boot floppy or boot cdrom. Since it is passed with lilo, you may be able to type it in blind. Timing is a problem, maybe hit tab, and that gives you extra time. This sounds like a fun experiment. :-) It might be easier to pull the harddrive and install linux on it in another machine, then put it back, with that append parameter built into lilo.conf.
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