-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hi Greg and all. Regarding virtualization, what is the consensus on the best method for getting good output from a textmode installer? I did try Qemu in - -curses mode, and unless I'm missing some configuration that needs to be done beforehand, I found a lot of capability missing, such as cursor tracking. This made it fairly difficult to navigate the Centos installer for example. My next option I figured was Virtualbox, but so far as I can tell, it doesn't have an Ncurses mode at all. Ideas? On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 04:08:52PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 06:40:27AM +0800, Kerry Hoath wrote: > > Just a note on drive size: > > Whilst your bios might have an 8-gig limit, it is easy enough to simply > > clip the drive capacity to something small and let linux find the whole > > drive, or set host protected area to 8gb and let linux override it. > > Linux accesses the drive using LBA so once the kernel and initrd are > > loaded from the /boot partition which must reside below 8gb the system > > should be fine. > > Yes, I was though thinking in terms of wanting to run an os in the > future which gets drive geometry from the bios, and doesn't care about > anything else. > > > Did doing an expert install change the parameters re package > selection? > > I haven't gotten around to trying it yet. > > > I > > should try this in a virtual machine sometime see how it flies. > > I was actually toying with that idea, doing exactly what I did before, > to see if it was in fact the age of the hardware which caused the > install to go on for such a long time, or some other factor. I think I > still might do that. Thanks. > > Greg > > > - -- > web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org > gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc > skype: gregn1 > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAku+YgQACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyD5bgCgv8s7VnLNEsOYdZf6XGa/aihZ > dE4An2HCadcnyRhkwgG5XC9QjWaFB1om > =o79H > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > - -- Igor -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUBS75p3ae2pgKIdGq4AQqWCw/8C2tyQ4x6wXDtYDmeTQUaooW435GWZAnY vEAi4ivht5OxmEKy3e2B1aBDwfkCzfmJSyejDGANmPxqh4988nUqdYRdCoUaoLVZ rdGjr0hljUmOLCphZliG/yKmbd6ABm44IuPfgoFgWueuMTkD36XZm/3u2mXblzas /BpW6M3cEYyJGbD8Bu7H5TlEPo74g1Xso9DH9K8L/fw0TQ1WhXBdb3C+KE62TQYV FVeOi733BiD2xevTH8etmoSwTn3IbYcQHIqzdBNjtqJaQRLCODmJYfkxO76MMOzJ 6mwi4Q1E4TjJx6FLKL9n4mSlO1x/GdBLBIY1MdrJVX4ImIC6PMosa6CiUYxp6kzg oGSg3+XIip4H/IGB6WwlZPZ4LZxeYrDF5VLeziSp2IEHN3J1V2EZZYwBjq1QKw6l IgGcG+skbTdW8pRGrKkOpCiHVZO0KYF/bOrJLNk44dPx7UMtYf9OuVKz0Vbh1ZrX o7HGJTfQkTwSHavphQZ3rYnBP4DcnpSJl77efPJffgXBAXTPwFjFaYjr8l1CBYA8 RDDTVk2PEopwxlfKCEBD64jvSlIhyKxEQ6xiEI1FijP5EaAPNZi9g5GGJCZjoIbQ 8tFZ9ALEX4BzB3nzB2eSIQdGMNJ5jBsbMeI11WKDvzc3o/HJTbEemoNIwfsX3Wt0 +zola3esT4c= =fx2/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
