installation

[Brad Hall]

On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 01:59:16PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote:
> I'm trying to gete my Ultra-60 installed (2 procs, 1G ram, 2x18G scsi
> disks).  I can't get off square 1: the intro screen asks me which of 5
> options to choose for the screen, and none, not one, of them works well
> enough for me to be able to navigate at all.  I have a PGX64 graphics
> card, that's what I want to use, but none of the options work.

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> I'm tried them all now.  The line graphics do not work anywhere.  The only
> one the looks even vaguely line a menu is #4, but even there, you cannot
> use the cursor keys, you have to use the letters ... the trouble is, the
> programmers evidently decided that a user would choose to use the moving
> highlighting to choose, but that feature doesn't work, and the letters are
> simply wrong, they aren't what you'd expect.
> 

For future reference: using the number keys worked well for me on my ultra5. 
If there is 7 options in the menu, press 5 and it hi-lights the 5th option,
and from there you can press enter .. etc.

-Brad