Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 01:34:18 +0100 From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Out of Box experience (Was: Re: How is selection made of what goes into CDrom?) Message-ID: <19971203013418.28489@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <4835.881107205@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Tue, Dec 02, 1997 at 04:00:05PM -0800 References: <19971202234331.13864@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4835.881107205@time.cdrom.com>
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As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Because sysinstall extensively relies on syscons features (like > > console switching). > > Really? It shouldn't, at least not in the non-VTY case. Last time i tried, i think the installer even came up on the graphics console, despite of being booted off a serial console. > ... - you > don't think it tries to switch consoles when you run it in an xterm > for example, do you? :-) Certainly not, but you know as well as me that there are a lot of ``if (running_as_init)'' decisions inside the code... -- 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. ;-)
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