From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Oct 29 15:52: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C52B37B4F9; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 15:51:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA07461; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 10:21:30 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200010272139.XAA32861@siri.nordier.com> Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 10:21:29 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Robert Nordier Subject: Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, (freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) , (Terry Lambert) , (Matt Dillon) , (Fred Clift) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 27-Oct-00 Robert Nordier wrote: > > around the broken bioses I use. I just might start using program posted > > in this thread that lets you do labels right in lieu of anything else, or > > perhaps I'll fix disklabel to work right as was suggeseted elsewhere. > Don't sysinstall work in a script mode? I've never used it, but I > thought it did. Yes it does.. It's not totally automated (you have to press enter twice) but a) that is not very hard and b) even if it was you could fix it and roll your own sysinstall that just assumed 'yes'. I have sysinstall doing a custom installation from a CD in short order with the user only having to configure X (ship different video cards so I can't just whack in a fixed XF86Config) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message