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Date:      Sun, 8 Feb 1998 21:55:57 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "M.Fassaert" <mauritsf@euronet.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Installation
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980208215504.24904P-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199802051244.NAA13187@relay.euronet.nl>

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On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, M.Fassaert wrote:

> When installing FreeBSD from the Walnut Creek CD-ROM I get a distorted
> screen when starting install.bat and also from the Boot-floppy
> It fills the screen with some strange ASCII-characters and I can just make
> out the place of the cursor by the colors (although all colors are
> flashing).
> Maybe this is because of my video card (FireGL 1000) 

I guess so; it should use the standard line-mode character set.  Did you
try running it after a cold boot?  Are you using an unusual character set?
(I assume so if you are from the Netherlands, if I have my ISO
translations right.)

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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