Subject: Re: installing a U10
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 03/14/2002 21:53:49
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 09:48:49PM +0100, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> On 14 Mar 2002 eeh@netbsd.org wrote:
> > | Could not initialize curses
> > | #
> > |
> > | At least a shell prompt from which I can continue. :)
> >
> > What do you expect if you don't tell it what sort of terminal
> > it's running on?
>
> Duh, I expected too much it seems. ;-)
> After setting TERM=sun (and stty rows 24 cols 80), I still get a rather
> garbled screen:
Well, if you have a serial console, do you really want TERM=sun ?
unless you're really displaying on a Sun screen in text mode I would guess
TERM=vt100 is more appropriate ...
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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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