On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 01:58:51PM -0600, Michael Parson wrote:
> I was digging around the ftp site and I found the install sets for 3.1,
> so I grabbed them and went about installing everything on my sparcbook.
> The problem is, with the install kernel, the console is 66x27 chars,
> which apparently, sysinst is having a problem with.

It does (sort of) assume at least 80x24

> When I get to the
> part to set up the disk slices, it would error out, saying the screen
> was too small.  If I set my COLUMNS=80, it would get through that
> section, with screen-drawing issues, but would error out after writing
> the label with
> 
> "sysinst: failed to allocate output window"

Looks the that error message could do with some of the values from the
call included...

    actionwin = subwin(stdscr, win->ws_row - nrow, win->ws_col, nrow, 0);
    if (actionwin == NULL) {
	    fprintf(stderr, "sysinst: failed to allocate output window.\n");
	    exit(1);

But unless the command line is longer than the screen it should be ok.

	David

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