Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 02:58:43 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Mark <admin@asarian-host.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Screen width Message-ID: <20030213005843.GB1355@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <200302122241.H1CMFGEH025609@asarian-host.net> References: <200302122241.H1CMFGEH025609@asarian-host.net>
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On 2003-02-12 23:41, Mark <admin@asarian-host.net> wrote: > Although I almost always communicate with my server (FreeBSD 4.7R) > via SecureCRT, esecially since it, apart from being secure, has such > a nice way to layout my screen-fonts and such, I do, however, from > time to time have access the server directly, via its own monitor > (for going into single-user mode and such). > > I was just wondering whether I can tweak the terminal settings a > bit. I mean, so as to have a text-screen a bit wider than 80x25. :) When you are in single-user mode there is only one filesystem, the root filesystem, and that is mounted read-only. Some additional things have to be done before you can use vidcontrol(1) to change the default video mode. For instance, to run mergemaster in 132x25 after an upgrade, I usually run the following in single user mode: # adjkerntz -i # swapon -a # fsck -p # mount -vu / # mount -va # vidcontrol -f grfixed-8x16.fnt -c destructive 132x25 # kbdcontrol -l mykeymap.map -r 200.35 The final two commands are the ones that set up things for the console terminal. Then my keyboard uses a relatively fast repeat rate that makes things easier for me to type, and the 'window' has 132 columns. This way, I can run mergemaster with: # mergemaster -w 132 which is a lot more comfortable for me, especially for viewing the side-by-side diffs printed while merging local changes :) I hope this helps a bit, - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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