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[Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>]

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On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 02:09, Eric Sandall wrote:
> Quoting Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>:
> > On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 01:27, Andrew ruskie Levstik wrote:
> > > On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 00:28:55 +1000
> > > Hamish Greig <hgreig-nospam AT bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hmm framebuffer... eeeeeeekkkkkk.... I just hope I'll never have to
> > > reinstall.... *just a random thought*
> >
> > like I said, the default is 800x600.
> > I chose to make it that so it was readable on older nomitors and it means
> > much
> > of the help and "--item-help" hints from the dialog outpu now fits within
> > the
> >
> > screen.
> > As I also said, non-framebuffer is available, the isolinux boot screen
> > explains how luddites like yourself only need type 6 letters, "lowres",
> > and you will install in the glory of 640x480 non-framebuffer console.
> > Maybe in the future you could spare us your random thoughts until you
> > possess
> >
> > all the facts ?
> >
> > thanks for you feedback
>
> Perhaps having the lowest common denominator (lowres) as default would be
> safest? Then those who like framebuffer (such as myself) can use 'highres'
> to enable it.
>
> Does that sound reasonable (even though some of the text help would be
> truncated now. Perhaps we need to shorten those?)?
>
> -sandalle

no 
It is only for the duration of the install, I have not added any vga lines to 
lilo.conf or grub.conf. Users not wishing framebuffer-console can disable it, 
they have that option, but the installer is better presented and more 
complete at 800x600 or higher. 
In the future if someone wants to rewrite the installer so that a seperate 
help screen can be brought up relating to any cursor-highlighted line 
(similar to the kernel menuconfig) then they can change the default to be 
non-framebuffer again. Similarly if someone wants to take my current 
installer code and add that for the next release I will accept that.
The current code will be uploaded to perforce when I have ironed out the 
kernel compile help screen problem.
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