From owner-freebsd-sparc Fri Jan 24 13: 3: 6 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35FA537B401 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 13:03:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from decstation.larkowski.net (decstation.larkowski.net [67.39.95.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C2B243E4A for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 13:03:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@larkowski.net) Received: from larkowski.net (bonham.starbak.net [68.22.149.119]) by decstation.larkowski.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h0OL2w414588; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 16:02:59 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3E31AA00.7060903@larkowski.net> Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 16:02:56 -0500 From: Peter Larkowski User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eric Humphries Cc: sparc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sparc64 Fbsd5.0 References: <368D67626F94DC42890180F75B1E97C799949D@newman.bisinc.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Eric: Other people on the list have said that installing via the system console doesn't work right yet and to use the serial console. As far as that goes, I had a similar experience using minicom from mac os x's terminal application, but when I used minicom on a linux text console, it worked for one of the options (either vt100 or ansi, I can't remember). -p Eric Humphries wrote: > I recently purchased a Sun Ultra 30. I would like to run FreeBSD 5.0 on > it, but after I select which terminal type I want and proceed to the > next terminal screen, my keyboard doesn't appear to be functioning > properly. > > Keep in mind I've tried all 4 or 5 terminal types, some display just > find, but others severely mangle the install menu. Regardless of which > one I choose, I'm not able to arrow around or select anything other than > install notes and exit for some reason. I've also tried installing via > serial console, but the same happens. Any ideas / suggestions would be > greatly appreciated. > > Thank You, > Eric Humphries > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Peter Larkowski mailto: peter@larkowski.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message