Subject: Re: install/35202 (partition menu breaks)
To: None <install-manager@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: Neil Houston <kyu.dev@gmail.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 12/08/2006 00:50:02
The following reply was made to PR install/35202; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: "Neil Houston" <kyu.dev@gmail.com>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: install-manager@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: install/35202 (partition menu breaks)
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 00:43:17 +0000
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Thanks for all the feedback!
Just checked out
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-4/200612050000Z/sparc64 and
it's empty?
Also, the screen is defo 66 colums wide and 27 high, which is a little
weird, the system has openboot 3.31. I have a massive 17" crt sitting in the
next room i could lug through to try if that would help?
Cheers,
kyu
On 07/12/06, David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk> wrote:
>
> The following reply was made to PR install/35202; it has been noted by
> GNATS.
>
> From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
> To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: install/35202 (partition menu breaks)
> Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 22:26:31 +0000
>
> On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 09:05:06PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> >
> > The error message also says that the screen size is 66 columns wide.
> > sysinst does rather expect 80 colums and 24 lines.
> >
> > Something unusual must be going on with the console font - which
> probably
> > makes this a sparc bug.
>
> Some thoughts...
> The sparc prom will expect a screen resolution of 1152x864 (just under
> 1M pixels with a same aspect ratio) - which is what sun frame buffers
> almost always were (going back to the sun3 even).
>
> Your 15" LCD monitor is probably 1024x768, the font that gives 80 columns
> with 1152 pixels gives fewer columns with only 1024 pixels....
>
> David
>
> --
> David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk
>
>
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Thanks for all the feedback!<br><br>Just checked out <a href="ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-4/200612050000Z/sparc64">ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-4/200612050000Z/sparc64</a> and it's empty?<br>
<br>Also, the screen is defo 66 colums wide and 27 high, which is a little weird, the system has openboot 3.31. I have a massive 17" crt sitting in the next room i could lug through to try if that would help?<br><br>
Cheers,<br><br>kyu<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 07/12/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Laight</b> <<a href="mailto:david@l8s.co.uk">david@l8s.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
The following reply was made to PR install/35202; it has been noted by GNATS.<br><br>From: David Laight <<a href="mailto:david@l8s.co.uk">david@l8s.co.uk</a>><br>To: <a href="mailto:gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org">gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
</a><br>Cc:<br>Subject: Re: install/35202 (partition menu breaks)<br>Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 22:26:31 +0000<br><br> On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 09:05:06PM +0000, David Laight wrote:<br> ><br> > The error message also says that the screen size is 66 columns wide.
<br> > sysinst does rather expect 80 colums and 24 lines.<br> ><br> > Something unusual must be going on with the console font - which probably<br> > makes this a sparc bug.<br><br> Some thoughts...<br> The sparc prom will expect a screen resolution of 1152x864 (just under
<br> 1M pixels with a same aspect ratio) - which is what sun frame buffers<br> almost always were (going back to the sun3 even).<br><br> Your 15" LCD monitor is probably 1024x768, the font that gives 80 columns<br> with 1152 pixels gives fewer columns with only 1024 pixels....
<br><br> David<br><br> --<br> David Laight: <a href="mailto:david@l8s.co.uk">david@l8s.co.uk</a><br><br></blockquote></div><br>
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