{"id":264,"date":"2010-08-01T08:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-01T08:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zensonic.dk\/?p=264"},"modified":"2017-04-09T10:03:43","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T10:03:43","slug":"ubuntu-headless-installation-serialport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zensonic.dk\/?p=264","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu Headless installation (serialport)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had to install ubuntu 10.04 server edition over the serialport. This is doable, but requires a keyboard to be attached and keys pressed blindly in the right sequence. Here is a little cookbook on what to press:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Run a terminal client on the serial console device. Configure the serial port to either the failsafe 9600 n-8-1, Hardware Flow Control=NONE, or to the much speedier 115200 n-8-1, Hardware Flow Control=NONE. The latter should be used only if the serial port in both ends support this kind of speed.<\/li>\n<li>Boot the server with the ubuntu 10.04 server install media in the CD\/DVD drive, or from a USB ke<\/li>\n<li>When it has booted into the installation menu (takes a couple of seconds), then do this\n<ul>\n<li>Press &#8216;Enter&#8217; (for language selection)<\/li>\n<li>Press &#8216;F6&#8242; (Other Options)<\/li>\n<li>Press &#8216;ESC&#8217; (to close the Other Options Menu)<\/li>\n<li>Press &#8216;Backspace&#8217; 3 Times (to delete &#8220;&#8211; &#8220;)<\/li>\n<li>Type &#8216;console=ttyS0,115200n8 &#8212; &#8216;<\/li>\n<li>Press &#8216;Enter&#8217;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Installation willl continue, ouputting the dialogs on the serial device.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>You should ofcourse replace ttyS0 with another serial device, if applicable. I am at a loss as to why I have to do this in order for me to install Ubuntu Server 10.04 over the serial port in 2010!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had to install ubuntu 10.04 server edition over the serialport. This is doable, but requires a keyboard to be attached and keys pressed blindly in the right sequence. Here is a little cookbook on what to press: Run a terminal client on the serial console device. Configure the serial port to either the failsafe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-personal-ramblings","category-unix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zensonic.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zensonic.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zensonic.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zensonic.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zensonic.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zensonic.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zensonic.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zensonic.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zensonic.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}