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Re:Revive a Cisco IDS into a Capable OpenBSD Computer by upofadown on Friday February 01, 2019 @11:33AM (#19055563)
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.
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Re:Revive a Cisco IDS into a Capable OpenBSD Computer by tyingq on Friday February 01, 2019 @12:21PM (#19056126)
They 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...
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Re:Revive a Cisco IDS into a Capable OpenBSD Computer by LukeShu on Friday February 01, 2019 @09:54PM (#19060715)
The 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-...
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Re:Revive a Cisco IDS into a Capable OpenBSD Computer by ohithereyou on Friday February 01, 2019 @11:47AM (#19055733)
You 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.
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Re:Revive a Cisco IDS into a Capable OpenBSD Computer by yellowapple on Friday February 01, 2019 @11:37AM (#19055612)
IIRC 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.
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