Serial console install using Russian language is not functional?
[Please CC responses to me, thanks.]
Hi,
I am trying an installation on a Sparcstation 10 over serial console.
Everything goes fine with English as the language, however when I choose
Russian (Russia) as the language in the initial screen, the things go
pretty bad. All I get is the first screen (screenshot at [0]) and then it
just sits there (waited for at least 3 minutes before aborting). Nothing
like this happens during an English install. Before filing bugs, I would
like to ask a few questions:
* Are non-English (in particular, Russian) installs over serial console
supported at all? Is Russian translation actually incorporated into
the latest boot images? I am using an image built yesterday by Joshua
Kwan.
* Since I do not see any Russian characters in the window header, what
settings should I use for the terminal? The terminal (xterm) I am using
is set up with ru_RU.KOI8-R locale, and is known for sure to be able to
display Russian (Cyrillic) characters in KOI8-R encoding. Should I use
UTF? Tried using xterm in the UTF8 mode (xterm -u8), but result is the
same.
* Any issues with serial console which might prevent me from seeing the
non-English characters? I am using cu to connect, it works completely
fine with English install.
[0] http://www.wooyd.org/d-i/shot1.jpg
Thanks for your excellent work and best regards,
Jurij Smakov jurij@wooyd.org
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