AHunter3
02-10-2006, 03:45 PM
I have FreeBSD running just fine under VPC, X11 environment and all, except that when I first created the environment I used an overly small, fixed-size virtual hard disk, and now there's no room to do much of anything except launch it and say "Yep, that's BSD" and close 'er down. Oops.
So I created a new virtual hard disk with room to grow and dug out the installer CDs and went to start over. But I'm now on my fifth or sixth run. I get as far as selecting the video card and monitor settings, and it tries to start X11 and craps out with a fail message and an [OK] to go back to configure settings which never works and, due to ignorance about how to pick up where I left off, I have to start again from scratch.
I know the video card is an "S3 Trio 32/64 PCI". That, unfortunately, doesn't appear in the list of cards that BSD knows about, not verbatim. Lots of S3 xxxxx (where the x's are numerals) and quite a flock of S3 Trio variants, with suffixes like 3D/2X and (generic) and so on.
I sure as hell checked off something that's working just fine in my old installation of BSD though. And it does a nice 1024 x 768 when it comes up.
How (to finally get to the question) do I query the working copy of BSD to find out what parameters were input the first time around, so I can make those same choices on the new install?
Also, there must be some way to resume and/or reinstall without starting from scratch each time, yes?
So I created a new virtual hard disk with room to grow and dug out the installer CDs and went to start over. But I'm now on my fifth or sixth run. I get as far as selecting the video card and monitor settings, and it tries to start X11 and craps out with a fail message and an [OK] to go back to configure settings which never works and, due to ignorance about how to pick up where I left off, I have to start again from scratch.
I know the video card is an "S3 Trio 32/64 PCI". That, unfortunately, doesn't appear in the list of cards that BSD knows about, not verbatim. Lots of S3 xxxxx (where the x's are numerals) and quite a flock of S3 Trio variants, with suffixes like 3D/2X and (generic) and so on.
I sure as hell checked off something that's working just fine in my old installation of BSD though. And it does a nice 1024 x 768 when it comes up.
How (to finally get to the question) do I query the working copy of BSD to find out what parameters were input the first time around, so I can make those same choices on the new install?
Also, there must be some way to resume and/or reinstall without starting from scratch each time, yes?