From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 21 05:22:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA10512 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 05:22:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mushi.colo.neosoft.com (qmailr@mushi.colo.neosoft.com [206.109.6.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id FAA10507 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 05:21:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 21828 invoked from network); 21 Jul 1997 12:14:02 -0000 Received: from bonkers.neosoft.com (HELO bonkers.taronga.com) (root@206.109.2.48) by mushi.colo.neosoft.com with SMTP; 21 Jul 1997 12:14:02 -0000 Received: (from peter@localhost) by bonkers.taronga.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id HAA12973 for questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 07:12:48 -0500 From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Message-Id: <199707211212.HAA12973@bonkers.taronga.com> Subject: Some questions from a user. To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 07:12:47 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Can someone shed some light on the sysconfig and console size problems? >From tkuehn@websurf.pcom.de Mon Jul 21 04:53:59 1997 Received: from ns3.harborcom.net (ns3.harborcom.net [206.158.4.7]) by bonkers.taronga.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id EAA10487 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 04:53:55 -0500 Received: from hub.freebsd.org (hub.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.18]) by ns3.harborcom.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA03156 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 05:55:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail1.pcom.de ([194.25.152.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA03743 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 02:55:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail1.pcom.de with MERCUR-SMTP/POP3-Server (v2.10) for at Mon, 21 Jul 97 11:55:21 +0200 Date: Mon, 21 Jul 97 00:51:10 GMT From: tkuehn@websurf.pcom.de (Torsten Kuehn) Reply-To: tkuehn@websurf.pcom.de (Torsten Kuehn) To: pds@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: Torsten Kuehn's PMMail v1.1 Subject: FAQ: How to increase number of lines in virtual consoles? Message-Id: <97072111552128000@mail1.pcom.de> The 2.2.2 FAQ does not explain how to set the console's alpha matrix to higher than 80x25 (e.g. 80x50). I've experimented a lot with term50 env variables, 8x8 screen fonts and with Soren Schmidt's vidcontrol program (which, BTW, blanks all screens until next reboot). Perhaps you could add this in the next release's FAQs. Some other FreeBSD related questions - perhaps you could forward them to the appropriate destination: 1.) reboot -p/ fastboot/ fasthalt do not work reliable. To restart after changes in my system configuration, I need a *soft* boot, but don't want to use the reset button, as the POST takes quite long. Sometimes, reboot -p initiates a soft boot, but often leaves me with a beeping system which can only be restarted with a hard reset. 2.) In the shells, there is no history function with cursor up/ down keys like DOSKEY, NT or OS/2's key variable for cmd.exe, or even with Linux shells. Like NextStep's csh, the FreeBSD shells lack cursor history key support. 3.) Logins and events on other consoles _destroy_ text screens on all consoles! I use to login as root, so all events are echoed on any console. When ee, man or mc (Midnight Commander) is running on other virtual consoles, the text output of these programs is hence destroyed. There is also a mysterious error message "unknown login_getclass 'root'" 4.) Installation: /stand/sysinstall did not create any /etc/sysconfig file. Consequence: rc.conf had to be modified manually to enable at least an appropriate keyboard layout. The boot screen recommends to "switch to /etc/rc.conf ASAP" to eliminate this warning - what means ASAP? 5.) File system support could be much better: I am very sorry to see that NextSteps BSD Fast File system cannot be mounted in FreeBSD. I only reserved 200MB for A5h FS type, whereas the A7h FS partiton is 575MB with an additonal A7h swap partition on the second physical hard disk. Neither FAT with LFN's, HPFS or NTFS file systems are supported, while this is true with Linux. FreeBSD currently only supports FAT with 8+3 filenames. On the other hand, switching among DOS|WIN (-> NTldr), NextStep, FreeBSD and OS/2 with OS/2's BootMgr is straightforward (requires a patched MBR).