From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 6 10:34:17 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7608416A4D1 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 10:34:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp3.server.rpi.edu (smtp3.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B2AB43D54 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 10:34:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp3.server.rpi.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i06IY9AI005626; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 13:34:09 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20040106073204.GD74366@funkthat.com> References: <20040106073204.GD74366@funkthat.com> Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 13:34:08 -0500 To: John-Mark Gurney From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) cc: sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Minor sparc64 install-time questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 18:34:17 -0000 At 11:32 PM -0800 1/5/04, John-Mark Gurney wrote: >Garance A Drosihn wrote on Mon, Jan 05, 2004: > > Right after booting up, the user is asked to pick a terminal >> type, from: >> 1 - standard ansi terminal >> 2 - vt100 or compatible >> 3 - freebsd system console (color) >> 4 - freebsd system console (mono) >> 5 - xterm terminal emulator >> > > None of those worked particularly great for me, although > > all of them seemed to work "to some degree". I finally > > decided on choice #2, as that seemed to work the best in > > the disklabel step. How does one know which to pick? > >You need to know what type of terminal you are using. If >you are using Windows Terminal, then 1 is probably best.. >xterm + tip on another box, then 5... console + tip on a >FreeBSD box, then 3 or 4.. I am sitting at the ultra-sparc, with a sun keyboard and a monitor attached to the video card. Just me, the Ultra-10 and the installation CD. So, I guess that would be called the "openfirmware console", or something. I'm not much of a sun-hardware expert, so I'm not sure what to be looking for in dmesg. The only video-ish line that I see in dmesg is: pci1: at device 2.0 (no driver attached) (reminder: I did get through the install fine, I'm just curious what the best answer is for the terminal-type) -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu