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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Matt Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.folkwolf.net "I've seen scarier secret police agencies than his completely destroyed by a Czech hippie playwright with a manual typewriter" Bruce Sterling 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > -- > Eric Delaunay | La v?rit? c'est qu'il n'y a pas de v?rit?. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]| (y compris celle-ci). Devise Shadok. >
