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The examples listed require the existence of a keyboard and screen. You would have to make or find a distro that used the serial console at boot. I think the wh
by upofadown 8y ago
The examples listed require the existence of a keyboard and screen. You would have to make or find a distro that used the serial console at boot. I think the whole point that the author was trying to make is that OpenBSD supports a serial console by default with the regular installation image.
- ohithereyou 8y agoYou only need a keyboard and mouse unless you modify the boot media to use the serial console for the installer, which several of those links detail. To say that Linux doesn't support it is incredibly ignorant of the author.
- yellowapple 8y agoIIRC Slackware at least also supports a serial console by default when installing (I used it to install Slackware on an Iomega NAS an old coworker of mine got rid of). Not sure about other distros.
- tyingq 8y agoThey don't generally require anything special though. Maybe a parameter or two. He installed OpenBSD on a serial console. Here's someone installing Debian on a serial console: https://teklager.se/en/knowledge-base/installing-debian-over-serial-console-apu-board/ https://teklager.se/en/knowledge-base/installing-debian-over...
- LukeShu 8y agoThe Linux kernel itself will use the serial console by default if there's no VGA device: If no console device is specified, the first device found capable of acting as a system console will be used. At this time, the system first looks for a VGA card and then for a serial port. So if you don't have a VGA card in your system the first serial port will automatically become the console. https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/admin-guide/serial-...