Message-ID: <3A228815.910B7DE7@gypsyfarm.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 11:13:09 -0500
From: zentara
Subject: Re: [SLE]? Install with no monitor
Benoit POSTE wrote:
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"
If you have two computers and available serial ports, just purchase a
serial cable, those with 9 and 25 pins (female) are the most convenient.
The steps I follow are:
1. Hook up the computers
2. Start an X terminal, eg. 'xterm -sb -sl 1000', and run
minicom in it. Bring out the configuration panel,
Alt-Z -> O -> Serial port setup -> E, Tell it to use
the serial port you connected the cable to (/dev/ttyS0,
/dev/ttyS1, etc.) Set up the serial port to 9600, no
parity 8 bit data, 1 stop bit.
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.
4. The status line of minicom should indicate if you are
offline or online. If it works, you should see all the
boot messages and you can save them by copying and pasting.
--
Rafael
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