From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 6 17:48:04 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id RAA00433 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 6 Feb 1995 17:48:04 -0800 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA00423; Mon, 6 Feb 1995 17:47:58 -0800 Received: (from phk@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id RAA07936; Mon, 6 Feb 1995 17:46:38 -0800 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-Id: <199502070146.RAA07936@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: sup: Ok, I'm gonna do it. To: paul@freefall.cdrom.com (Paul Richards) Date: Mon, 6 Feb 1995 17:46:38 -0800 (PST) Cc: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au, hackers@FreeBSD.org, jdc@crab.xinside.com In-Reply-To: <199502070102.RAA27730@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Paul Richards" at Feb 6, 95 05:02:58 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1040 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > In reply to Joe Greco who said > > I, for one, appreciate the desire for a nicer install. However, as one of > > the folks out here who must deal with older, donated, begged, or borrowed > > equipment, I think it would be safe to say that I would oppose any changes > > that locked us into requiring a VGA card/etc. I sorta-like sorta-dislike > > the 2.0 dialog-based install - it can potentially be run over a serial line, > > but still requires a cons25/pc3/whatever term type in order to function > > correctly (maybe this is as easy to fix as allowing TERM type to be set?)... > > Kind of. There's not much space on the install floppy for a full termcap > but there's a choice of cons25 and vt100 built into the sysisntall code > whic should cover nearly every case. s/nearly every case/a lot of cases/ I guess we can fit in another couple of termcap entries, which ones do you want ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp TRW Financial Systems, Inc. FreeBSD has, until now, not one single time had an undetected error. :-)