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Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 01:04:04 +0200
From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
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Subject: Re: Console 50-lines at bootup?
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On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 03:55:26PM -0700, Jay O'Brien wrote:
> Dan Nelson wrote:
> 
> > In the last episode (Jul 27), Jay O'Brien said:
> > 
> >>I cannot make it set up the VGA_80x50 and 'green black' parameters 
> >>when booting up. I've tried many iterations of the text in 
> >>/etc.rc.local or /etc.rc.conf.local and I get errors and failures to boot
> >>that forced me to learn about single-user mode to recover.  (Probably a
> >>good thing that I had to learn about single-user!)
> > 
> > 
> > :)
> >  
> > 
> >>I would like the system to boot up into VGA_80x50 and green on black, and
> >>I'm stumped.
> > 
> > 
> > This should work:
> > 
> > allscreens_flags="-m on 80x50 green black"
> > 
> > ("-m on" enables the mouse)
> > 
> 
> Thank you, 
> 
> Where should I place that instruction?

/etc/rc.conf



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