Re: Install debian with serial port as console?
dg@bingo.baynet.de wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, Larry Owens wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know if it is possible to install debian on a PC that does
> > not have a video card or keyboard? I would like to set up a linux
> > system that would use a modem attatched to a serial port as the only
> > console.
>
> Hi Larry!
>
> Does a PC work without a keyboard??? Mine is allways complaining about a
> "Keyboard Failure" when I do not have a keyboard connected!
On a lot of systems, in the BIOS you can choose 'No Keyboard'
or 'Halt on no error' to just blow by the 'missing' keyboard.
Tim
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