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Re: slang wierdness in woody install



Grant Edwards wrote:
> 
> I can't believe I'm the first one to see this, but I couldn't
> find anything in the bugtracking syste or e-mail archives.
> 
> When doing a Woody install from floppies, the borders on the
> newt dialog windows are broken.  They're either missing
> entirely (most of the installer) or garbage characters that
> cause layout errors (module loading sub-system).
> 
> I've seen this on two systems so far.
> 
> Myabe I've got broken floppies???

Nope, I understand it's a limitation of slang with the frame buffer
console used with some versions of the boot-floppies. It's a tradeoff
between good borders and nice language support in the language chooser.

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