Perhaps it should go in FAQ section 7, or somewhere else, I don't know where. Note pccon is only for some platforms.
On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 08:50:12AM +0000, Tati Chevron wrote: > On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 08:23:08AM +0000, Nicholas Marriott wrote: > >On Sun, Nov 08, 2015 at 09:01:52PM +0000, Tati Chevron wrote: > >>Is there any reason why the OpenBSD installer still defaults to a > >>terminal type of vt-220 for the VGA framebuffer console, and doesn't > >>even suggest pccon as an alternative? > > > >In the installer itself? vt220 works fine and reliably and - importantly > >- is small and fits on the ramdisks. Who needs to press F13 in the > >installer? > > Agreed, I didn't mean the installer itself, that does work fine with vt220. > > >If you mean in /etc/ttys, this has been discussed before and mostly the > >reason it has stayed is that terminfo entries propagate very slowly and > >vt220 is available everywhere, no matter if the user ssh to some ancient > >OS. It's easy to change anyway. > > Ah, then this is a documentation issue - I always assumed that the terminal > type specified in the installer was propogated to /etc/ttys during the > install, and used as a default for the console. > > It is indeed easy to change, but the existance of pccon isn't exactly widely > documented. To be honest, I knew about it, but seeing that it was broken and > not used by default in the installer, nor on the console after installation, > I assumed that it was abandoned and unmaintained. > > -- > Tati Chevron > Perl and FORTRAN specialist. > SWABSIT development and migration department. > http://www.swabsit.com
