Re: Potato install on Serial Console (i386)
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 10:52:02AM +0200, Joerg Friedrich wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I tried to install rescent Debian 2.2 (i386) via serial console, but I
> ran into some errors.
>
> First problem was to use a terminal program. I didn't get minicom
> running. so I used seyon. But I had no colors, just b&w.
>
> Color would be nice, because I want to make screenshots for a
> installation manual.
>
> the important problem is, that I cannot partition the harddisk. cfdisk
> seems to fail, when started on serial console.
>
> can anyone help?
Might be terminal type related. Try scrolling down to 'execute an shell'
and running cfdisk from there.
echo $TERM
TERM=ansi cfdisk
TERM=vt100 cfdisk
ls -R /var/lib/terminfo, if I remember the pth right, to see which
terminals have terminfo entries.
Don't have potato handy, but termtype was an issue with woody. I've
added vt102 to woody b-f. Again for woody, busybox init sets termtype
to vt102 for serial consoles. You might be able to interact with your
boot loader and specify TERM=ansi, although I've had no joy with that
on hppa.
Richard
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