I have one, and no, it doesn't work. Not until after the system is installed.
The only option I think might hold promise (but it's gonna cost) is one of those remote management cards. Sun had a LOM card that you could SSH to, and then access a console from it... I think you can get one of those PC Weasel cards, but there really expensive. On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 19:16, Russell Garrison <russell.garri...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Eric Oyen <eric.o...@gmail.com> wrote: >> hello group. >> >> I have an interesting (and fairly technical) question. >> >> the question is: how can I forward the install screen via ssh to another >> machine on my network? I ask this because I didn't see any specific >> instructions that applied. my issue right now is that I need a sighted >> assistant to read me the screen and help with B installing the base system > (and >> setting up ssh). >> >> I would like to run the install like from a serial port output (like the > old >> spark pizza boxes) but none of my current machines have a serial port to do >> this on. >> >> comments? suggestions? >> >> -eric >> > > Any possibility of using USB serial adapters on these systems? You may > need to blind-type to the boot loader in order to get it up on the > serial redirection with an attached keyboard, but as I recall that > isn't a big issue for Eric. ;) Then you would just need a crossover to > the other DTE port on a host running cu and ssh to handle the install. > We would do a similar thing with our v210's except they had built-in > serial.
