[159359] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OOB core router connectivity wish list
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Adams)
Wed Jan 9 22:22:04 2013
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 21:15:47 -0600
From: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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Once upon a time, Randy Carpenter <rcarpen@network1.net> said:
> Likewise OS vendors are increasingly dropping support for installing OSes via serial port (RHEL, VMWare, etc.)
>
> At leaset with RHEL, you can make your own boot image that gets rid of the asinine splash screen (which is the only thing that causes the requirement for a full VGA console)
RHEL installs with a serial console just fine. You also don't have to
"make your own boot image" to get a non-graphical boot.
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Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
