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Date:      Wed, 3 Dec 1997 01:34:18 +0100
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Out of Box experience (Was: Re: How is selection made of what goes into CDrom?)
Message-ID:  <19971203013418.28489@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <4835.881107205@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Tue, Dec 02, 1997 at 04:00:05PM -0800
References:  <19971202234331.13864@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4835.881107205@time.cdrom.com>

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As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> > Because sysinstall extensively relies on syscons features (like
> > console switching).
> 
> Really?  It shouldn't, at least not in the non-VTY case.

Last time i tried, i think the installer even came up on the graphics
console, despite of being booted off a serial console.

> ... - you
> don't think it tries to switch consoles when you run it in an xterm
> for example, do you? :-)

Certainly not, but you know as well as me that there are a lot of
``if (running_as_init)'' decisions inside the code...

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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