Package: debian-installer
Version: 20121003
Severity: normal
hi,
i've set up a wheezy box for running virtual machines using libvirt,
QEMU/KVM, virt-install, etc.
i don't really like installing VMs using VGA-over-VNC, so i tried a
serial console installation, like this:
virt-install \
--name=mytestvm \
--ram=1024 \
--vcpus=1 \
--cpu host \
--disk pool=guest_images_lvm,size=32 \
--network bridge=br0 \
--graphics none \
--location http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/dists/wheezy/main/installer-amd64/ \
--extra-args="priority=low -- console=ttyS0,115200"
i ran this over ssh, running in an 80x25 xfce4-terminal, value of TERM
was "xterm", if that matters. some things i noticed:
* pressing "end" on my keyboard didn't go to the end of a list of
menu items, but instead acted as if i had selected "go back" (that
is, as soon as i pressed "end", the previous menu screen was
displayed).
* normally on a long menu screen you can scroll down by pressing the
down arrow key. this doesn't seem to work, and i couldn't manage
to reach the (hidden) options on the "configure the package
manager" screen where you can toggle sources.list entries for the
security and volatile repositories. i've attached a screen shot
of my terminal to show what this looks like.
--
Robert Edmonds
edmonds@debian.org
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