Headless Linux - The AHLI is a way to do a Linux install on a PC that lacks a monitor and keyboard but has a serial connection to a terminal or to another Linux box that is emulating a terminal. www.cs.unm.edu/~jotto/headless/headless.html
Linux Journal - Serial Console - Serial Terminal as Console article. www2.linuxjournal.com/cgi-bin/frames.pl/lj-issues/issue36/console.html