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Bug#126370: installer issues on "real" terminals



Package: install
Version: 3.0.17-2001-11-18
Severity: minor

Upon installing the testing distribution on a PReP PowerPC machine 
over the serial console (using a TI 924 terminal in VT100 mode), I 
came across the following minor issues:

- "progress bars" (while downloading packages) don't show up on this 
monochrome terminal, probably because they're designed to set the 
background color to red (IIRC from VGA-based installs), which is not 
available on a mono terminal.

- the screen shows a "alt-F4 to debug, alt-F1 to return" message 
which doesn't make sense if we're not on a virtual console.

- the installer fails to set the terminal to ttyS0 (instead of tty1) 
in the inittab so /usr/sbin/base-config doesn't work after the first 
reboot in the install process.

cm.

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>> [1] MSFP nennt das dann "Hooverbutton",
>                           ^^^^^^ Weils so gut saugt?
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