Re: Installation in russian
At 5 Jan 04 15:22:02 GMT,
Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
> > 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...
Yes, but it can handle all of major language.
> 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 ...
This needs to modify 1st stage frequently.
We go to freeze 1st stage, so we may be refused such a thing.
Sorry.
> 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).
- jfbterm/unifont is used temporary for support multi languages on 2nd
stage. After installation completed, terminal will come back old
console (or run xdm).
- My code trys vesafb and vga16fb as same as 1st stage. Does these
break nVidia? How about 1st stage?
Thanks,
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Kenshi Muto
kmuto@debian.org
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