Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 14:05:07 -0800 From: Brad Hall <haws@ender.com> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> Cc: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installation Message-ID: <20041216140507.A4675@dragon.ender.com> In-Reply-To: <20041121134911.X1330@april.chuckr.org>; from chuckr@chuckr.org on Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 01:59:16PM -0500 References: <20041121134911.X1330@april.chuckr.org>
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On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 01:59:16PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: > I'm trying to gete my Ultra-60 installed (2 procs, 1G ram, 2x18G scsi > disks). I can't get off square 1: the intro screen asks me which of 5 > options to choose for the screen, and none, not one, of them works well > enough for me to be able to navigate at all. I have a PGX64 graphics > card, that's what I want to use, but none of the options work. <snip> > I'm tried them all now. The line graphics do not work anywhere. The only > one the looks even vaguely line a menu is #4, but even there, you cannot > use the cursor keys, you have to use the letters ... the trouble is, the > programmers evidently decided that a user would choose to use the moving > highlighting to choose, but that feature doesn't work, and the letters are > simply wrong, they aren't what you'd expect. > For future reference: using the number keys worked well for me on my ultra5. If there is 7 options in the menu, press 5 and it hi-lights the 5th option, and from there you can press enter .. etc. -Brad
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