Installing Slackware Without Hardware Synthesizer

[Gregory Nowak]

Good point. Actually, I believe Haden said he's doing this in a
virtual machine. In that case, just give the guest a virtual serial
port, and connect to it from the host with minicom/screen/telnet.

I haven't used slackware for the last 11 years or about, so can't give
you an exact boot sequence. However, when you get to a boot prompt of
the boot loader, pass:

console=ttyS0,115200

to the kernel, and you should hopefully be all set.

Greg


On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 10:44:16AM -0600, John G Heim wrote:
> One more thing that might be worth considering is a serial console
> install.  This would probably be way easier than manually
> reproducing the steps performed by the slackware installer. you'd
> need another computer and a null-modem cable. Oh,and both machines
> have to have serial ports.
> Tip: Null-modem cables are a glut on the market in used computer
> stores. New, they are about $5. But there is no reason to pay more
> than a dollar for one of those thingsat a used computer store.


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