From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 2 06:34:09 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 545CF16A4CE for ; Fri, 2 Apr 2004 06:34:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from gldis.ca (constans.gldis.ca [66.11.169.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBDAB43D1F for ; Fri, 2 Apr 2004 06:34:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gldisater@gldis.ca) Received: from gldis.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gldis.ca (8.12.8p2/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i32EfVcj071664; Fri, 2 Apr 2004 09:41:32 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gldisater@gldis.ca) Message-ID: <406D7A96.1070103@gldis.ca> Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 09:37:10 -0500 From: Jeremy Faulkner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040321 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: port@sigga.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 'clamd / ClamAV version 0.65', clamav-milter version '0.60p' cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Sun Ultra - installer on bootonly cd outputs weird display X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 14:34:09 -0000 port@sigga.org wrote: > I'm trying to install FreeBSD on a Sun Ultra 5, but I'm pretty new at this > stuff. I've managed to get the fbsd_bootonly CD to be the startup CD, and > it gives me 5 display options, like VT100, xterm emulator, FreeBSD > console, etc. However, every single one of these results in mangled > display (ie., characters appear on top of other characters - basically > what happens if one's emulation is set wrong) and an inability to use the > arrow keys, which seems necessary to use/configure the settings the > installer provides. I'm sure this is very simple to fix, but I have no > idea what to try. Thoughts? Serial port installs are supported. Monitor/Keyboard installs are possible, but you must know what key sequence to hit to navigate the menus. -- Jeremy Faulkner http://www.gldis.ca