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Date:      Fri, 17 Jan 1997 08:20:26 -0700 (MST)
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
Cc:        mmcg@heraclitus.cs.monash.edu.au, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: i386/2485: 2.2-BETA (install) device probe appears to screw screen
Message-ID:  <199701171520.IAA03152@rocky.mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970117002250.j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
References:  <199701162200.OAA16354@freefall.freebsd.org> <Mutt.19970117002250.j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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> >  NB: It may be wise to distribute a `PCVT-based' install floppy as well
> >  as the usual syscons one.
> 
> I know that Nate once did this, to work around the problem that
> syscons didn't handle the Thinkpad out of the box...  I'm not sure
> whether sysinstall relies on some features of syscons.  To the least,
> the keyboard mapping stuff wouldn't work.

At least in 2.0.5 sysinstall relied on particular syscons features, such
as the way it switches virtual consoles, graphics, etc..


Nate
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