Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 08:20:26 -0700 (MST) From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: mmcg@heraclitus.cs.monash.edu.au, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: i386/2485: 2.2-BETA (install) device probe appears to screw screen Message-ID: <199701171520.IAA03152@rocky.mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970117002250.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <199701162200.OAA16354@freefall.freebsd.org> <Mutt.19970117002250.j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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> > NB: It may be wise to distribute a `PCVT-based' install floppy as well > > as the usual syscons one. > > I know that Nate once did this, to work around the problem that > syscons didn't handle the Thinkpad out of the box... I'm not sure > whether sysinstall relies on some features of syscons. To the least, > the keyboard mapping stuff wouldn't work. At least in 2.0.5 sysinstall relied on particular syscons features, such as the way it switches virtual consoles, graphics, etc.. Nate
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