An install that functions from both serial console and local keyboard?

[Dan Carpenter]

2005/8/2, Rauschkolb, Mark <mrauschkolb at ebs.com>:
> 
> We want to have a minimally interactive install that will work over a
> serial console, or with a locally attached keyboard -- the only
> interaction at the moment is to reply to a "do you want to wipe the
> contents of the machine"
> 
> I can get the config to work with either the attached keyboard (output
> to and get a reply from /dev/tty1) OR to work with the serial console
> (/dev/console) but I cannot get it to work with both.
> 
> Is there a way to communicate with both devices simultaneously?
> 

Nope.  There isn't an easy way to do that.

> If not, is there a way to determine if there is a keyboard/monitor
> attached?
> 

If you used a USB keyboard you could type lsusb.  

regards,
dan carpenter