RE: starting /stand/sysinstall in single user mode, how?

2004-01-17 Thread Didier WIROTH
 setenv TERM cons25
solved the problem!
thanks a lot

-Original Message-
From: Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: samedi 17 janvier 2004 15:14
To: Didier WIROTH
Subject: Re: starting /stand/sysinstall in single user mode, how?

On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 14:46:47 +0100
Didier WIROTH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> probably wrote:

> hi,
> (concerns freebsd 5.2-release)
> when I restart in single user mode with: "shutdown now"
> I choose: /bin/csh as my shell.
> Set TERM variable: set TERM cons25

What about a

# set TERM cons25; export TERM

?

> It is actually impossible to use sysinstall in ASCII mode, you can't 
> navigate in it, it immediately crashes.

That's too bad anyway...



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DoubleF
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Re: starting /stand/sysinstall in single user mode, how?

2004-01-17 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 02:46:47PM +0100, Didier WIROTH wrote:
> hi,
> (concerns freebsd 5.2-release)
> when I restart in single user mode with: "shutdown now"
> I choose: /bin/csh as my shell.
> Set TERM variable: set TERM cons25
> and try to start sysinstall: /stand/sysinstall
> 
> A message appears:
> Try to set the TERM variable before using sysinstall
> Sysinstall will use ASCII mode .. 
> (The message is not 100% exact)
> It looks like it doesn't accept or recognize the TERM variable? What's wrong
> with my TERM variable, I have also tried:
> set TERM=cons25 or anything imaginable, nothing worked!

For csh, try:
setenv TERM cons25

bye
Gautam

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