Installing Slackware Without Hardware Synthesizer

[Haden Pike]

Correct, I forgot about serial ports. I wonder if I could write software to emulate one of the supported hardware synthesizers.

Haden Pike
Computer Science
University of Kentucky
Class of 2016



> On Mar 2, 2016, at 3:47 PM, Gregory Nowak <greg at gregn.net> wrote:
> 
> 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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