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From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
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Subject: Re: i386/2485: 2.2-BETA (install) device probe appears to screw screen
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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