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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.bugs:2007 comp.os.386bsd.questions:7810 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!paladin.american.edu!gatech!swrinde!sgiblab!cs.uoregon.edu!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD at last! (was Re: FreeBSD-1.0R: Missing operating system) Date: 9 Jan 1994 20:29:15 GMT Organization: Montana State University - Bozeman MT Lines: 25 Message-ID: <2gpper$fp@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <2gmuie$3vi@news.ysu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <2gmuie$3vi@news.ysu.edu>, Christopher L. Mikkelson <ae516@freenet.buffalo.edu> wrote: > > Thanks much to all the folks that helped me with the missing >operating system error. I used disk geometry borrowed from linux fdisk >and it works! > So far, I have noticed a few problems. With X (xdm-des), the >keyboard is flaky (<Shift>,<Ctrl>, and <Meta> keys lock from time to time, >and characters drop at times of high system load), but xdm-des -nodaemon >and xinit will not let me use delete or backspace keys. Does anybody >have any termcap entries or the like that would help? This ounds like you have a getty running on the same console as X? Are you running syscons? What does /etc/ttys look like? [ Printing problem deleted ] Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | Freely available *nix clones benefit everyone, nate@cs.montana.edu | so let's not compete with each other, let's work #: (406) 994-4836 | compete with folks who try to tie us down to home #: (406) 586-0579 | proprietary O.S.'s (Microsloth) - Me