From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 9 02:30:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA27605 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 02:30:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA27513 for ; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 02:30:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from localhost (kpielorz@localhost) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA00346; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 10:29:52 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 10:29:52 +0100 (BST) From: Karl Pielorz To: Justin Clift cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: *very* important addition to the installation instructions In-Reply-To: <003c01bdf366$880b5620$0100a8c0@knight> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG (sorry about the poor formatting this is written in pine, on a vt52 wannabe windows program... Hope it looks better out there than it does here ;-) On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Justin Clift wrote: > Hiyas, > > I think this problem is common enough to warrant inserting this additional > one-sentence entry into the installation instructions... > > "If you have to boot with '-c' on a first time install, DO NOT remove the > Syscon Console Driver even if it displays as a conflict. This will leave > you with a blank screen and no installation." To be honest, I'm pretty sure it's covered in the FAQ's / documentation - or somewhere... > I hope you guys do actually insert this statement into the installation > docs. The fact I can't remember where, probably means it might be in a bad place, and yes - it's probably a good idea to make it more prominent... I wonder if theres enough room for something like "Sycons (DO NOT REMOVE NORMALLY)" or something ;_) Regards, Karl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message