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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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