Re: [slackware-sparcdevel] Would you like to try out some custom screen fonts?

From: David Cantrell (david@slackware.com)
Date: Wed Dec 20 2000 - 19:15:48 PST


On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 08:26:08PM -0600, Phil Howard wrote:
> The prompt:
>
> Would you like to try out some custom screen fonts?
>
> should either default to "No" or be skipped altogether when the
> console is a serial port.
>
> BTW, perhaps one easy way to detect if the video is present or
> not is to just actually open /dev/tty1 and see if it works.
> Perhaps someone is still trying to install from serial even if
> the keyboard is plugged in (and virtual consoles configured)
> so it won't be a perfect test. But it could be a test to decide
> to symlink virtual consoles to /dev/null so setup and other stuff
> won't error out on them.

Done. That should've been no anyway. I never set a custom font, so this
is now one less keystroke to have to do. :)

It now presents a menu with NO being the first choice (and highlighted)
and YES as the second choice. So just hit enter to move on to the next
configuration stage.

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David Cantrell | david@slackware.com                                      *
        KG6CII | Slackware Linux Project



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