Aymeric Mansoux said :
> Brian King said :
> > > > I was wondering...is puredyne meant to be run from a cd/dvd?
> > > > and if you install it to your hd, is it just an image of the cd/dvd?
> > >
> > > you can choose to either have a full install using ubiquity, or turn
> > > your HD in a liveHD with a persistence setting using make-live-device.sh
> > >
> > >
> > Ok i installed via menu option on live cd so assume I used ubiquity?
>
> yes.
>
>
> > > > Knoppix was like that the last time I tried it (years ago now)
> > > > A copy of the loopback filesystem.
> > > >
> > > > I friend suggested it might be as I was having some issues.....like bash
> > > > doesn't seem to work well with the ~/.bashrc file.
> > > > I tried to add alias's to it and source them with . ~/.bashrc but no
> > > go...i
> > > > get this creepy prompt "\[\e]0;\...@\h:
> > > > \w\a\]${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}...@\h:\w\$" and my alias ref's
> > > in
> > > > ~/.bashrc aren't installed?? What's the story hory?
> > >
> > > mm...
> > > Puredyne uses zsh for the shell, not bash ... did you change that
> > > yourself?
> > >
> >
> > hmmm....i replaced xterm with gnome-terminal so that's me problem then?
>
> well could be.
> The terminal is used to interface with the shell, and you can make any
> combinaison you like.
>
> Except that.. our shell, ZSH, is configured to deal with 256 colors
> enables terminals and by default, in Puredyne, xterm is configured to
> understand that.
> I just installed fresh from ubiquity myself, and this setting isn't actually being copied to HDD somehow, I had to do it manually in ~/.zshrc so my mutt colors work again. Should I/we file a bug for this? > But probably not gnome-terminal, which is probably why you see all these > escape codes. To be sure this is the source of the problem, go in your > terminal preferences and tell it to set its TERM name to: > > xterm-256color > > Then restart and it should work. > > a. > > PS: This 256 color prettification is bringing more troubles than > goodness BTW, and it will be changed to a less intrusive customisation > in a future release. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/puredyne-live/+bug/496296 > oh good! :) > > > --- > [email protected] > http://identi.ca/group/puredyne > irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne >
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