Re: Installation in russian

["Nikita V. Youshchenko" <yoush@cs.msu.su>]

> I think installed packages at 1st stage should be smallest.
> I'm planning to use jfbterm for 2nd stage. 

Jfbterm and unifont also cost some space...

I'm not really familar with current DI status. Is debootstrap the only tool
used to install packages at the first stage? Seems not - at least kernel
package seems to be installed in another way.

So maybe it is possible to install console-cyrillic at the first stage only
in cases when it is needed? And install jfbterm in other cases ...

I believe that tools that require framebuffer should be used only when
really required. Linux framebuffer is not only slow, it does not always
work. Recently we had some problems with a recent NVidia video card - linux
text console worked, linux framebuffer console did not.
Also experience shows that X is more stable when framebuffer console is
disabled.

> Could you test jfbterm whether fits Russian or not?
> 1. apt-get install jfbterm unifont
> 2. Enable your kernel Framebuffer driver
> 3. Run "jfbterm -c other,KOI8-R,iconv,UTF-8" (Does KOI8-R match for
> Russian?)
> 4. Check some debconf packages, apt-get messages, and so on.

I just tried to start mc under jfbterm.
Immidiate problem is that pseudographics characters are displayed
incorrectly (letters are displayed instead).