installation

[Chuck Robey]

On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, David O'Brien wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 08:29:08PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote:
> > On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Jason wrote:
> > > After you get the os installed, make sure you compile a kernel with
> > > syscons.
> > >
> > > device sc
> > >
> > > and turn them on in /etc/ttys
> > >
> > > Why doesn't the GENERIC sparc64 kernel have syscons in it if they work?
> > > Wouldn't that fix the installer?
> > >
> > > whoah, blinkenlights.nl?  What happened to starwars at
> > > towel.blinkenlights.nl:23
> >
> > Well, if I could install at all, then I could build a kernel, right?  I
> > have to go find ouot what I was pointed towards in the amil archives (not
> > found it yet).  My poor sparc has no serial terminal and no syscons I know
>                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> ENOPARSE.  Sparc machines are Real(tm) Unix machines -- if the keyboard
> isn't plugged in, the put the console out over ttya.  Pick the terminal
> emulation that matches your terminal setting for where you're runing the
> terminal emulator on your x86 FreeBSD box.

Well, I don't think (in this case) the unix-ness gets too far into it, the
termcap being read is on the other host, not the sparc box.  Otherwise, if
it was on the sparc box, I could just tell it to use the xterm termcap,
and use the available xterm sending protocol.  My serial will be my Mac,
which has a nice termcap (it's freebsd's, of course)

>
>

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Chuck Robey         | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD,
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