On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:39:24 -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: >Not yet. I'm still experimenting, since I could only get it to work on 19200 >baud for the entire process (I was hoping to make it work at 115200 for >everything) and I'm still writing and editing the info. I felt that on one >page I needed to add a comment that changing the speed to 115200 can create >other problems. I'm also writing up a page, with links to other pages that >helped me, specifically for installing Debian Squeeze on a 5501.
Actually higher speeds on console ports are a giant wank. The default on a 5501 is 19200 but I set all of the boxes I install to 9600. Why? Well that is the default for most professional gear. So my netbook that goes on-site with me automatically uses 9600 and never has to change. It never runs into problems with missed chars using a 3-wire connection and WTH good is a higher speed on a console anyway? Are you going to run a copy of Wordstar on it and do gross find and replace runs across a giant file? I don't think so. Surely you are not using a curses install screen? Plain text will beat it any day. Anyway I hope you get it up to 115200 and then measure how long an install takes and repeat it at 9600. Let us know just how big the poofteenth of a second you gain really is. *** NOTE *** Please DO NOT CC me. I <am> subscribed to the list. Mail to the sender address that does not originate at the list server is tarpitted. The reply-to: address is provided for those who feel compelled to reply off list. Thankyou. Rod/ --- This life is not the real thing. It is not even in Beta. If it was, then OpenBSD would already have a man page for it. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
