installing via serial

[Tyler Littlefield]

38400 should be fine. even if ncurses is laggy, I'll suffer through it.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kerry Hoath" <kerry at gotss.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 8:31 PM
Subject: Re: installing via serial


> One thing to be aware of however;
> grub and lilo only support baudrates up to 38400 even though the kernel
> serial support can run things faster.
>
> 38400 is the fastest speed that works with boot loader and kernel.
>
> Regards, Kerry.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John Heim" <jheim at math.wisc.edu>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2008 12:57 AM
> Subject: Re: installing via serial
>
>
> 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 ----- 
>> From: "Nick Stockton" <nstockton at gmail.com>
>> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
>> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 2:51 PM
>> Subject: Re: installing via serial
>>
>>
>> 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."
>> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 9:53 PM
>> Subject: Re: installing via serial
>>
>>
>>> 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."
>>> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> ~~TheCreator~~
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