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by **Keith Dave** » Thu, 02 Nov 2000 06:09:41

Good Day,

I have recently completed an install of a FreeBSD 4.1.1 system. I noted
a (what I felt) glaring deficiency in the install process that I would
like to have made noted of. (Now I completely understand that I may have
simply over looked this and if so I apologize). It occures to me that
during the install of FreeBSD there is no way to go back thru the dmesg
and note what hardware was detected at what locations. This seems to me
to be something that would be helpful to know prior to blowing away are
rewriting disk partitions. Other systems (notably SuSE Linux) allow
the installer to review the detected hardware (and load kernel modules
to pick up missed hardware) prior to the install process ever beginning.
I would like to petition this group for opinions on the viability and
usefulness of this as an improvement to be made in the FreeBSD install
program.

Keith Davey
Tivoli Systems

by **Michel Talo** » Thu, 02 Nov 2000 19:01:46

> Good Day,
> I have recently completed an install of a FreeBSD 4.1.1 system. I noted
> a (what I felt) glaring deficiency in the install process that I would
> like to have made noted of. (Now I completely understand that I may have
> simply over looked this and if so I apologize). It occures to me that
> during the install of FreeBSD there is no way to go back thru the dmesg
> and note what hardware was detected at what locations. This seems to me

In fact there is a way! Just after boot you can press Key Pause and then
PgUp and you can browse the kernel messages. Press Pause again and you can
proceed.

--
Michel Talon

by **Donn Mille** » Thu, 02 Nov 2000 23:10:19

> simply over looked this and if so I apologize). It occures to me that
> during the install of FreeBSD there is no way to go back thru the dmesg
> and note what hardware was detected at what locations. This seems to me

During the install, did you select the option where you can do a full-screen
configuration of your devices? "Start configuration in full-screen mode", or
something like that.

- Donn

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by **Main roo** » Fri, 03 Nov 2000 13:05:43

I'm running v3.4 and to look at dmesg I switch to /var/run and view the
dmesg.boot to view
my probbed devices. I not sure if 4.11 removed this....can ya verify?

Quote:> Good Day,

> I have recently completed an install of a FreeBSD 4.1.1 system. I noted
> a (what I felt) glaring deficiency in the install process that I would
> like to have made noted of. (Now I completely understand that I may have
> simply over looked this and if so I apologize). It occures to me that
> during the install of FreeBSD there is no way to go back thru the dmesg
> and note what hardware was detected at what locations. This seems to me
> to be something that would be helpful to know prior to blowing away are
> rewriting disk partitions. Other systems (notably SuSE Linux) allow
> the installer to review the detected hardware (and load kernel modules
> to pick up missed hardware) prior to the install process ever beginning.
> I would like to petition this group for opinions on the viability and
> usefulness of this as an improvement to be made in the FreeBSD install
> program.

> Keith Davey
> Tivoli Systems

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