Date: Tue, 02 Dec 1997 19:45:01 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Out of Box experience (Was: Re: How is selection made of what goes into CDrom?) Message-ID: <5697.881120701@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 Dec 1997 01:34:18 %2B0100." <19971203013418.28489@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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> Last time i tried, i think the installer even came up on the graphics > console, despite of being booted off a serial console. Hmmm. And you used all the appropriate -h flags and such? The thing of it is, I think Paul Traina has successfully installed off of a serial console since he complained about some bogus screen update problems which only showed up on a slow display. ;) > > ... - 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... Actually, the RunningAsInit boolean is for triggering a different class of behavior. It's the OnVTY variable which is looked at when such things are relevant for I/O purposes. Jordan
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