From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Dec 2 19:45:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA03093 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 2 Dec 1997 19:45:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA03082 for ; Tue, 2 Dec 1997 19:45:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.7/8.6.9) with ESMTP id TAA05700; Tue, 2 Dec 1997 19:45:01 -0800 (PST) To: Joerg Wunsch cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Out of Box experience (Was: Re: How is selection made of what goes into CDrom?) In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 03 Dec 1997 01:34:18 +0100." <19971203013418.28489@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Tue, 02 Dec 1997 19:45:01 -0800 Message-ID: <5697.881120701@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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