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Brian Rudy wrote:
> Good day;
> I am having some difficulty with the installation of version 5.3 on a 
> Ultra 60 system.
> 

I am currenlty installing an Ultra-60 system, so I have a keen interest 
in what you say, but your complaint is (at least to me) totally 
non-descriptive.  Can you do a better job of explaining just exactly 
what's wrong?

> It seems like everything goes fine but, the console display goes south.  
> Everything else seems to be working ok but, the console isn't.  Remote 
> access to this box is working fine.
> 
> Here's the last group of lines from dmesg:
> 
> Apr 19 06:02:33 sun syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel
> ELF ldconfig path: /lib /usr/lib /usr/lib/compat /usr/X11R6/lib 
> /usr/local/lib
> Starting local daemons:
> .
> Updating motd
> .
> Starting sshd.
> Initial sparc64 initialization:
> .
> Additional ABI support:
> .
> Starting cron.
> Local package initialization:
> NTP
> .
> Additional TCP options:
> .
> Starting inetd.
> Starting background file system checks in 60 seconds.
> 
> Tue Apr 19 06:02:37 EDT 2005
> Apr 19 06:02:37 sun getty[423]: open /dev/screen: No such file or directory
> 
> 
> There is no /dev/screen file but, there is a /dev/screen:r1280x1024x60 file
> 
> I tried making a link to this file in hopes it would fix it but, after a 
> reboot, my link was gone.
> 
> Can someone point me in the right direction?
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> Thank you
>