Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 13:34:08 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> Cc: sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Minor sparc64 install-time questions Message-ID: <p06020427bc20ad380e7b@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20040106073204.GD74366@funkthat.com> References: <p06020425bc1fccaf6ded@[128.113.24.47]> <20040106073204.GD74366@funkthat.com>
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At 11:32 PM -0800 1/5/04, John-Mark Gurney wrote: >Garance A Drosihn wrote on Mon, Jan 05, 2004: > > Right after booting up, the user is asked to pick a terminal >> type, from: >> 1 - standard ansi terminal >> 2 - vt100 or compatible >> 3 - freebsd system console (color) >> 4 - freebsd system console (mono) >> 5 - xterm terminal emulator >> > > None of those worked particularly great for me, although > > all of them seemed to work "to some degree". I finally > > decided on choice #2, as that seemed to work the best in > > the disklabel step. How does one know which to pick? > >You need to know what type of terminal you are using. If >you are using Windows Terminal, then 1 is probably best.. >xterm + tip on another box, then 5... console + tip on a >FreeBSD box, then 3 or 4.. I am sitting at the ultra-sparc, with a sun keyboard and a monitor attached to the video card. Just me, the Ultra-10 and the installation CD. So, I guess that would be called the "openfirmware console", or something. I'm not much of a sun-hardware expert, so I'm not sure what to be looking for in dmesg. The only video-ish line that I see in dmesg is: pci1: <display, VGA> at device 2.0 (no driver attached) (reminder: I did get through the install fine, I'm just curious what the best answer is for the terminal-type) -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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