Subject: Re: install/35202 (partition menu breaks)
To: None <install-manager@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 12/07/2006 22:30:02
The following reply was made to PR install/35202; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: install/35202 (partition menu breaks)
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 22:26:31 +0000

 On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 09:05:06PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
 >  
 >  The error message also says that the screen size is 66 columns wide.
 >  sysinst does rather expect 80 colums and 24 lines.
 >  
 >  Something unusual must be going on with the console font - which probably
 >  makes this a sparc bug.
 
 Some thoughts...
 The sparc prom will expect a screen resolution of 1152x864 (just under
 1M pixels with a same aspect ratio) - which is what sun frame buffers
 almost always were (going back to the sun3 even).
 
 Your 15" LCD monitor is probably 1024x768, the font that gives 80 columns
 with 1152 pixels gives fewer columns with only 1024 pixels....
 
 	David
 
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 David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk