From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Oct 31 15:30: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [171.66.112.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46E8237B479 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 15:30:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA62701; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 15:18:17 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 15:18:17 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson To: Keith Davey Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dmesg in Install In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org You could just press the ScrollLock key and use the up-arrow to scroll upward through the messages. Press ScrollLock again to cancel it. Actually that would be good for the -questions list--you're right that it's a good source of information. Annelise On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Keith Davey wrote: > > Good Day, > > I have recently completed an install of a FreeBSD 4.1.1 system. I noted > a (what I felt) glaring deficiency in the install process that I would > like to have made noted of. (Now I completely understand that I may have > simply over looked this and if so I apologize). It occures to me that > during the install of FreeBSD there is no way to go back thru the dmesg > and note what hardware was detected at what locations. This seems to me > to be something that would be helpful to know prior to blowing away are > rewriting disk partitions. Other systems (notably SuSE Linux) allow > the installer to review the detected hardware (and load kernel modules > to pick up missed hardware) prior to the install process ever beginning. > I would like to petition this group for opinions on the viability and > usefulness of this as an improvement to be made in the FreeBSD install > program. > > Keith Davey > Tivoli Systems > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message