installing via serial

[John Heim]

Yeah, I'd go the other way and set the baud rate to 115200.  Just make sure 
ythe emulator you're using on windows is using the same settings.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kerry Hoath" <kerry at gotss.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 4:07 AM
Subject: Re: installing via serial


> he's using a null modem to another computer;
> 9600 makes the ncurses based installer screens come up nice and slow.
>
> Regards, Kerry.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
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> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 2:51 PM
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>
> wouldn't 9600 bod be better sence most hardware synths use 9600 bod?
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kerry Hoath" <kerry at gotss.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
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> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 9:53 PM
> Subject: Re: installing via serial
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>> Ok here is how I do the distributions by serial that support it although
>> this only works for real serial ports in the box not those on usb to
>> serial
>> or pci serial cards.
>>
>> Look at the cd image and in particular the config for isolinux.
>> Find out the default lables and kernel names, for example the ubuntu
>> server
>> disk has linux and expert.
>>
>> Now at the boot: prompt you simply do
>> label console=ttyS0,38400
>>
>> example
>> expoert console=ttyS0,38400
>>
>> I have done this for Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora core and Centos.
>>
>> No idea if slackware or gentoo have serial support and serial console
>> support in the default kernels.
>> Regards, Kerry.
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Tyler Littlefield" <tyler at tysdomain.com>
>> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
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>> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 4:06 AM
>> Subject: installing via serial
>>
>>
>> Hello list,
>> I'd like to be able to do a self-install of debian, and other OS's as
>> well.
>> Is there a way that I can make any of the following use a serial install?
>> I can get SecureCRT and get me a null-modem cable and a pci-serial card,
>> and
>> run the install through SecureCRT--and it might be better than buying an
>> external synth:
>> slack,
>> gentu,
>> debian,
>> mandrake,
>> fedora
>> also bsd would be fun to play with--if I had serial, I wouldn't have to
>> rely
>> on ssh as well.
>>
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