Modern FreeBSD Installer?
Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
m.e.sanliturk at gmail.com
Thu Apr 23 08:47:26 UTC 2009
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 2:52 AM, Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:
>
> Let me state this: correct screen detection is already a problem
> with "the big" X, how should "a small" installer get this right
> with its limited resources? Mind this: The installer runs in a
> very limited setting, while X can rely on an already running
> system.
>
>
Yesterday I was installing a CentOS 5.3 Linux distribution in GUI mode .
It detected monitor maximum size correctly ( 1920 x 1440 ) ,
but set the monitor mode to 1600 x 1200 while display was in 1920 x 1440
without screen border sliders . Click area for Back and Next was the bottom
right corner of the
screen which they were not visible .
I wondered what will be result of install . By changing zoom values of
monitor
( Installer was assuming that screen settings are conforming to each other )
I could manage to squeeze 1920 x 1440 screen size into 1600 x 1200 screen
size
( setting of factory defaults of monitor did not help ) .
Arrangement of monitor settings took longer than installation itself .
Ideas that GUI is NOT better than text based installs is VALID .
Thank you very much .
Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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