On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Anuerin G. Diaz wrote: > Just to clarify things, I only asked the question because Im not sure I > still have a serial keyboard at home and I wouldn't buy one because of > space issues in jungle that I call my room and the keyboard is bound to > be junked somewhere after all is done. And I also think doing it this > way would be one good experience.
I am not too good with hardware, but as far as I know, the only keyboards that work with Intel PCs are not serial keyboards. I have seen only three kinds of keyboards so far: those that connect to the dedicated keyboard socket, or PS/2 socket, or USB port. I have yet to see true serial keyboards for Intel PCs. Maybe you are referring to dumb serial terminals that connect to the serial port and are recognized in /etc/inittab as /dev/ttyS* Most installation systems will not have automatic support for a console on /dev/ttyS0 or /dev/ttyS1, so you might have problems installing even on systems with only dumb termnials. I can not see how you can do interactive installation on a system without keyboard or monitor. You may not even be able to do a network install, because most installation systems don't auto- configure themselves as DHCP clients, so how do you get the not-even- installed system to talk to the network? P~Manalastas _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
