From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Feb 8 03:21:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA06464 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 8 Feb 1997 03:21:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id DAA06459 for ; Sat, 8 Feb 1997 03:21:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id MAA24546 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 8 Feb 1997 12:21:10 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.6.9) id MAA25683; Sat, 8 Feb 1997 12:05:11 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 8 Feb 1997 12:05:10 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What happened to the splash screen? References: <199702071017.FAA02234@hda.hda.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 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 Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199702071017.FAA02234@hda.hda.com>; from Peter Dufault on Feb 7, 1997 05:17:21 -0500 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Peter Dufault wrote: > > I would even be tempted to do a stab at serial console installation, > > but i still need a good idea how to `switch screens' there. > I have two concept 108s here (man 5 termcap). They have 8 pages > of screen memory. It may be a bit expensive to send one off to you, > though. This, and it doesn't solve the problem for users of a more mainstream terminal like a VTxxx one. I think what we need in this case is something like a library that opens up to 4 ptys, and allows to hot-key switch between them. I don't know `screen', but i think it's doing something like this. I'm not sure whether it's possible to combine it with sysinstall though. -- 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. ;-)