Re: Serial consile connection for OS install?

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 12/04/04 

Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 08:16:06 +0100

In comp.os.linux.misc Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com>:
> On 2004-12-03, Michael Heiming <michael+USENET@www.heiming.de> wrote:
[..]

> That's what it would take to do an install serially, since I
> don't think it's possible to tell the installer to use a serial
> device.

Works with rh kickstart, you tell the installer via tftp
(pxelinux.cfg - IIRC), something in the lines of (from memory, no
guarantee for correctness - there's a detailed kickstart docu
explaining it all):

append ksdevice=eth0 console=console=tty0 ttyS0,19200 \
        ks=http://10.6.3.101/kickstart/ks-blah.cfg \

You need a dhcp server + tftp + http/ftp/nfs server for something
like this and perhaps an install LAN, works like a charm, albeit
it's highly questionable if the work needed to setup can be
justified for one/two systems?;) 

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