Re: installing off of serial console.
This is what I have in my inittab. Which is the exact same as I was using
for terminal emulation over my serial line. Does that not support curses
exactly right?
T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 9600 vt102
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Matt Rose mattrose@folkwolf.net http://www.folkwolf.net
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On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Eric Delaunay wrote:
> Matt Rose wrote:
> > On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Thomas 'Mike' Michlmayr wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 11:50:25 -0400,
> > > Matt Rose <mattrose@folkwolf.net> wrote:
> > > > Is it possible to install debian through a sparc serial console?
> > >
> > > curses works for me. an interesting thing to add is that for me the special
> > > characters (for borders and so) work during installation, but are (singular
> > > character) garbage afterwards. but i was never bothered enough to investigate.
> >
> > Hmm, I found the same thing myself. It probably sets the TERM
> > variable and the termcap file to something that doesn't quite understand
> > sparc serial console.
>
> Could you check your /etc/inittab for a getty entry that looks like:
>
> T1:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS1 9600 vt100
>
> The last parameter should be the contents of the TERM variable.
>
> Regards.
>
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>
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