From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 8 21:56:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA08479 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 21:56:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA08467 for ; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 21:56:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA25038; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 21:55:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 21:55:57 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "M.Fassaert" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation In-Reply-To: <199802051244.NAA13187@relay.euronet.nl> 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 On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, M.Fassaert wrote: > When installing FreeBSD from the Walnut Creek CD-ROM I get a distorted > screen when starting install.bat and also from the Boot-floppy > It fills the screen with some strange ASCII-characters and I can just make > out the place of the cursor by the colors (although all colors are > flashing). > Maybe this is because of my video card (FireGL 1000) I guess so; it should use the standard line-mode character set. Did you try running it after a cold boot? Are you using an unusual character set? (I assume so if you are from the Netherlands, if I have my ISO translations right.) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message