On Thursday, May 9, 2024 11:35:03 PM PDT you wrote: > On Thu, May 09, 2024 at 03:14:54PM -0700, Stephen Medina wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I was in the middle of my first install, about to partition my > > drive, when sysint terminated with the error "screen too > > narrow for menu". I am using one of those old square LCD > > monitors. Is there a way around this? > > Tell us more about the machine this happened on. Sysinst requires at least > 80 columns and 24 rows (which seems reasonable). If your architecture's > kernel does not come with fonts to allow for that, we need to add them. > > What is the resolution of your display and what kernel are you booting? > > You can boot the installer, exit installation and use e.g. > > dmesg | more > > to find more details. An example for on of my machines would be: > > [ 1.000000] NetBSD 10.0_STABLE (EMMAS) #7: Sun Apr 28 16:05:18 CEST 2024 > [ 1.000000] > mar...@seven-days-to-the-wolves.aprisoft.de:/work/src-10/sys/arch/amd64/com > pile/EMMAS > > this lines tell us architecture and kernel used.
amd64 GENERIC > [ 1.014923] genfb0: framebuffer at 0xf1000000, size 1024x768, depth 32, > stride 4096 > > and this tells us the resolution of the display. 1024 x 768 > You can check the text resolution by > > stty -a > > which for me outputs: > > speed 9600 baud; 48 rows; 128 columns; queue = 2048; line = termios; > lflags: icanon isig iexten echo echoe -echok echoke -echonl echoctl > -echoprt -altwerase -noflsh -tostop -flusho pendin -nokerninfo > -extproc > iflags: -istrip icrnl -inlcr -igncr ixon -ixoff ixany imaxbel -ignbrk > brkint -inpck -ignpar -parmrk > oflags: opost onlcr -ocrnl -oxtabs -onocr -onlret > cflags: cread cs8 -parenb -parodd hupcl -clocal -cstopb -crtscts -mdmbuf > -cdtrcts > cchars: discard = ^O; dsusp = ^Y; eof = ^D; eol = <undef>; > eol2 = <undef>; erase = ^?; intr = ^C; kill = ^U; lnext = ^V; > min = 1; quit = ^\; reprint = ^R; start = ^Q; status = ^T; > stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; time = 0; werase = ^W; > > > So I have 48 rows and 128 columns, despite the quite low res monitor > used on that console. I get 24 rows and 64 columns! Too low it seems. Do I need a different monitor? > Martin
