On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 09:27:03AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > Maybe you could add text to the handbook to say this, but it is already > implicitly assumed in the handbook section you are referring to since it > assumes you can safely compile a new kernel, etc. [...] If we were to > document those every time it would clutter documentation making it harder for > someone who is new to FreeBSD to simply setup a serial console on a box that > they just installed.
It sounds like what we need is a tutorial, and (somewhere else?) the extended version. People seem to trip over things like this fairly often; at least this way we could refer them to a standard text. No, I don't have the backgroud, or cycles, to write it :-) mcl _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"