an observation, and question

[Igor Gueths]

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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:
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> 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
> 
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