On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 06:08:33AM -0500, Magnus wrote: > > On Monday, February 23, 2004, at 11:02 PM, Mike M wrote: > > >If I understand you correctly, you have no VGA + keyboard console and > >you only have a serial port. You want to reload the machine using the > >serial port? > > This is very very common if you're on non-PC hardware. Most of my > machines are sparc, hp-parisc and alpha. The only monitor is hooked up > to my PC which is running minicom and a big null modem cable that I > move from machine to machine.
Was it a sparc or something that has a reasonable serial interface? If so then life will be much easier. It's the x86 archs that are non-trivial for serial consoles. -- Mike Two hundred years ago, we note mischievously, the average American or European had a standard of living not very much superior to that of the average man in India or China. -- dailyreckoning.com -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
