I want to do a serial console installation on a i386 computer that doesn't have a monitor or a keyboard. But because of some reason it doesn't work instead of functioning like noted in the installation instructions: "If you are booting with a serial console, generally the kernel will autodetect this. If you have a videocard (framebuffer) and a keyboard also attached to the computer which you wish to boot via serial console, you may have to pass the `console=<device>' argument to the kernel, where <device> is your serial device, which is usually something like ``ttyS0''." knowing that there is no keyboard or videocard attached it should just work fine but it doesn't.
note 1: Its not a true console I'm installing from its a computer connected to the computer where I'm installing Debian on thru a null modem cable using a terminal emulation program set to 9600, no parity, 1 stop bit. The hardware is just fine as my test install of another serial install enabled os demonstrated (FreeBSD to be exact) note 2: I found something in the user-boot archives that might explain this but doesn't give a solution: "However, the Hamm and Slink i386 installation disks did not support serial console. The main problem was that the standard kernel did not have serial support compiled in. the serial device was in a module, and you had to get pretty far into the installation before it was installed. The last time I checked, the same was true of the potato install disks. I have not checked lately." I think a new kernel for the install disks would fix it but. I'm not sure I would like to hear if that would fix it or that I have to do it more difficult. (sorry for my not so good english)
