From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Dec 2 16:45:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA20438 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 2 Dec 1997 16:45:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA20428 for ; Tue, 2 Dec 1997 16:45:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id BAA26677 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 3 Dec 1997 01:45:31 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.5) id BAA00723; Wed, 3 Dec 1997 01:34:19 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19971203013418.28489@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 01:34:18 +0100 From: J Wunsch To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Out of Box experience (Was: Re: How is selection made of what goes into CDrom?) Reply-To: Joerg Wunsch References: <19971202234331.13864@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4835.881107205@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88 In-Reply-To: <4835.881107205@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Tue, Dec 02, 1997 at 04:00:05PM -0800 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)