Stupid questions on installing

[Super Bisquit]

In the forth prompt:
printenv output-device
Look for screen.
devalias screen
Look at the last value.
dev / ls
Look for the path of the screen. The second one will be the VGA output.
setenv output-device /path/to/VGA
That will set it.
I'm not sure about the scca device.




On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 11:48 PM, Super Bisquit <superbisquit at gmail.com> wrote:
> Okay, I fixed the output.
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 7:02 PM, Super Bisquit <superbisquit at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Apologies for busting up the party.
>>
>> Does anyone else have a PowerBook Titanium with a G4 500MHz processor?
>> I need the address to the monitor/VGA output.
>> Printenv states the output-device-1 is screen. Does anyone have an
>> output-device-2 on theirs? The screen lasts for a few minutes before
>> the Vertical Stripes show airs.
>>
>>  Also, again, do I need to format the usb key to hfs to boot it or do
>> I need to have a hfs partition followed by a ufs partition?
>> The i386 installation doesn't have support for the APM gpart option.
>> Will it need to be compiled with it?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 9:37 PM, Peter Grehan <grehan at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> Hi Matt,
>>>
>>>
>>>> Did we ever have an OF-only syscons for FreeBSD (probably early on)? I
>>>> wonder if it would also go over telnet...
>>>
>>>
>>>  Early development was done with the OF console, but due to issues (maybe
>>> now fixed?) with the context switch to OF from FreeBSD, I abandoned it and
>>> went for a syscons framebuffer console made to look a lot like a PC.
>>>
>>>  The OF console does still work if you boot under the gdb psim emulator.
>>>
>>>  Not sure if telnet would work - FreeBSD is going to collide with access to
>>> the gem ethernet and also the decrementer interrupt.
>>>
>>> later,
>>>
>>> Peter.
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