From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Oct 17 8:33:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D78AF37B401 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 08:33:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thuvia.demon.co.uk (thuvia.demon.co.uk [193.237.34.248]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAAE943E6E for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 08:33:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk) Received: from dotar.thuvia.org (dotar.thuvia.org [10.0.0.4]) by phaidor.thuvia.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g9HFXbcF018277; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 16:33:39 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk) Received: from dotar.thuvia.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by dotar.thuvia.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9HFXaP0037419; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 16:33:36 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark@dotar.thuvia.org) Received: (from mark@localhost) by dotar.thuvia.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g9HFXZKX037418; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 16:33:35 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 16:33:35 +0100 (BST) From: Mark Valentine Message-Id: <200210171533.g9HFXZKX037418@dotar.thuvia.org> In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 beta(5) 10/07/98) To: ue@nathan.ruhr.de (Udo Erdelhoff), freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Please review: new handbook chapter on serial install Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > From: ue@nathan.ruhr.de (Udo Erdelhoff) > Date: Tue 15 Oct, 2002 > Subject: Please review: new handbook chapter on serial install > + > + There is an additional dialog at the start of > + &man.sysinstall.8; where you can define which kind of > + terminal you are using. > + > + Does anyone else have a problem getting the correct line drawing characters when using an xterm at this point? After rebooting at the end of the install they suddenly start being displayed correctly. > + The second required change is the creation of a > + boot.config file on the root file system > + of your newly installed FreeBSD box. I've never found this necessary since sysinstall adds console="comconsole" to /boot/loader.conf when doing a serial install. Cheers, Mark. -- Mark Valentine, Thuvia Labs "Tigers will do ANYTHING for a tuna fish sandwich." Mark Valentine uses "We're kind of stupid that way." *munch* *munch* and endorses FreeBSD -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message