Stupid questions on installing

Super Bisquit superbisquit at gmail.com
Sun Jan 20 05:19:59 UTC 2013


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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