From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 18 22:07:19 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id WAA04593 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 22:07:19 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id WAA04587 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 22:07:16 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA26890; Tue, 18 Jul 95 22:59:35 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9507190459.AA26890@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: Where is O'Reilly Asso? To: jimmy.dgeek@genie.geis.com Date: Tue, 18 Jul 95 22:59:34 MDT Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199507190322.AA063924148@relay1.geis.com> from "jimmy.dgeek@genie.geis.com" at Jul 19, 95 03:01:00 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > The README file referenced documentation from O'Reilly Associates, but it > doesn't tell you where to find them. I would be grateful for either a tele- > phone number or address for them. http://www.ora.com US and Canadian Customers General information (Weekdays 6am-5pm Pacific time): 800-998-9938 or 707-829-0515 Credit card orders (Weekdays 6am-5pm Pacific time): 800-889-8969 Email orders: order@ora.com Fax orders: +1 707-829-0104 Mailing address: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. 103A Morris Street Sebastopol, CA 95472 > One other item, although I did get the system installed, I could not do it > from my CD Rom. Apparently I have an unsupported SCSI controller (Future > Domain TMC-1680). Yes. Apparently programming doc is available (Rod? Jordan?) but no one buys them any more so no one has bothered to write a driver. > My specific question, which would make trouble shooting easier, is how can > you redirect the information shown on the screen during bootup to either the > printer (on LPT1) or to a log file for later display? It's already in a log file. Use the "dmesg" command. To print, you could (if your default printer was set up) do a: dmesg | lpr Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.