The installation went smoothly except for 1 glitch - I was unable to create a boot floppy. When I got to that stage it formatted the blank floppy I provided (and it seemed to use a "superformat"), then bailed out. When I switched to console 2 where the log messages go during installation, I saw a gripe about invalid argument to umount. Have you seen that? (Yes I tried another floppy, same result).
More importantly though, do you know how I can resize the newfangled framebuffer console like I could with SVGATextMode? stm itself doesn't work at all, predictably; but neither does fbset which seems to be the closest thing to what I want. (It complains about a failed ioctl). Even if fbset worked, it's a horrific amount of work to figure out the parameters which are all in terms of pixels, clock rates etc. With stm I could just say "stm 112x40" and bingo. For text users like me the framebuffer is definitely a giant step backward unless I'm missing something. I had to install X just to read some basic documents. If resizing is as hard as it seems or even impossible, is there a way to disable the framebuffer and use the old char-cell console? Something like a kernel command line parameter perhaps? I read kernel/Documentation/fb/* but all I can see is a mention of a video= parameter with no explanation what should go on the right side. :-( Thanks for help, -- Ian Zimmerman Lightbinders, Inc. 2325 3rd Street #324, San Francisco, California 94107
