Ben, that is what I am hoping to find. transplanting from one hardware set to another is definitely problematic. also, the idea of looking for a com board is not a bad one. those are considerably cheaper and may offer what I need.
-eric On Dec 8, 2011, at 7:31 AM, Benny Lofgren wrote: > On 2011-12-07 20.47, Eric Oyen wrote: >> the question is: how can I forward the install screen via ssh to another >> machine on my network? I ask this because I didn't see any specific >> instructions that applied. my issue right now is that I need a sighted >> assistant to read me the screen and help with installing the base system (and >> setting up ssh). >> I would like to run the install like from a serial port output (like the old >> spark pizza boxes) but none of my current machines have a serial port to do >> this on. > > As others have noted, that's unfortunately not possible with the way the > system boots. Your best bet would probably be to grab a cheap PCI (or what > kind bus your system has) serial port board that's capable of running as > COM1 and then running the install from a serial port. > > Either that, or moving the root disk from your target machine to another, > running, system and doing the install in a virtual machine on that host. > You'd have to do a little leap of faith from then on of course, and hope > that it will boot properly when moved back to its original environment. > > You'd probably want to enlist the help from someone first in order to get > a dmesg from the system and check what network device(s) it has, so that > you can set up the correct network interfaces blindly in the virtual > environment (assuming it can't emulate that particular network hardware). > > > Regards, > /Benny > > -- > internetlabbet.se / work: +46 8 551 124 80 / "Words must > Benny Lofgren / mobile: +46 70 718 11 90 / be weighed, > / fax: +46 8 551 124 89 / not counted." > / email: benny -at- internetlabbet.se
