[arch-releng] [RFC] Enable headless installation

Thomas Bächler thomas at archlinux.org
Fri Oct 26 10:31:10 EDT 2012


Am 26.10.2012 16:11, schrieb Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi:
>> To sum things up: Our iso should try to be least intrusive as possible.
>> Do not alter any settings on the host system and do not listen on any
>> port.
>>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> Pierre
>>
> Last night, before going to sleep, I thinking about this ...
> 
> I agree with you.
> 

We should also enable serial-getty at ttyS0.service by default - it has no
[Install] section, so we have to create the symlink manually. Even if
someone doesn't know how to put console=ttyS0 in the bootloader from
serial, they'll get a terminal.

More details here: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/serial-console.html


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