On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 14:52:56 -0400, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanlit...@gmail.com> wrote: > Last week I have installed Solaris 10 ( 2008-10 ) on a PC ( x86 ) > having an Intel main board . It did not recognize Philips 220WS LCD ( > 1680 x 1050 ) monitor and selected itself a text-mode install and also > booted in text mode. > > I moved its hard disk to a PC with an Asus main board having an > attached CRT Philips 109B6 ( maximum resolution : 1920 x 1440 ) > monitor . Since boards were different , Solaris 10 could not boot . I > started an upgrade installation . During that time it become necessary > to leave PC for a while assuming that installation will wait . With > its count down and start by itself in its GUI mode . it started to > install automatically . > > At the end , the install become useless because its default detections > were not what parts were there ( I think it used previously detected > parts without checking the present parts except monitor and perhaps > some others , I do not know exactly .) .
That's why there should be at least the option of a text-mode install (and it should probably be the default, as Polytropon wrote). I also hate it when an installer fails to autodetect my video adapter and ends up showing me a useless blank screen or, even worse, an equally useless 'out of range' monitor message! _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"