On Sat, 29 Jun 2013 15:37:42 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: > > As you know, the installation procedure for Debian on the s390 and s390x > architectures involves using the Integrated System Console (or the virtual > 3215 console in a virtual machine under z/VM) to get the network device > configured, then logging in as "installer" using a remote SSH client to > finish the rest of the installation. I have learned from experience that > when my remote SSH client is PuTTY running under Windows, I can get the > box-drawing characters in the Debian installer to look right by selecting > "UTF-8" as the character set in the PuTTY configuration. If I use Lat-1, > or some other character set, the box-drawing characters don't look right. > > Recently, however, I tried a Debian install for s390x (wheezy) using the > Linux SSH client running under Linux on an Intel box instead of PuTTY > running under Windows. (Debian package openssh-client, command ssh.) > I used a virtual terminal, vt2 in this case, rather than an xterm window > or something similar (i.e. gnome-terminal). I can connect just fine, > but the box-drawing characters don't look right. I can't find any way > to configure the Linux ssh client to make the box-drawing characters > display properly. > > How do I get the Linux ssh client to work with the Debian installer to get > the box-drawing characters to look right? Or must I use Windows to > install Debian?
Well, I'm answering my own post. Sorry about that. But maybe it will help others. I guess I didn't do enough digging before posting my question. But anyway, here's the answer. The Linux ssh client apparently does not have a mechanism for independently specifying the character mapping, as PuTTY does. If it does, I haven't discovered it. The Linux ssh client relies on the character mapping of the host Linux system under which it runs. You have to change that to UTF-8 if you want to have the box characters of the Debian installer running on a remote s390 or s390x host look right. You specify that in two different places: one for xterm sessions under the X Window system (or a substitute application for xterm, such as Gnome Terminal) and the other for virtual terminals (vt1-vt6). Login as root. Enter the command dpkg-reconfigure locales Select appropriate locales. On my system, I selected en_US, en_US.ISO-8859-15, and en_US.UTF-8. Select OK. On the next screen, you select a default locale for the system. I selected en_US.UTF-8. Complete the configuration. This changes the character mapping for stuff under the X Window System. Now enter dpkg-reconfigure console-setup On the first screen, you select the encoding to use on the console. Select UTF-8, then select OK. Finish the configuration. This changes the character mapping for virtual consoles. Now shutdown and reboot. Upon reboot, the ssh client will use UTF-8 character mappings, whether you run it in a terminal window under the X Window system or whether you run it in a virtual terminal. And the box characters of the Debian installer will look right for the remote s390/s390x host. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1478260138.1947802.1372543174813.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com
