[tomsrtbt] Recovery CD going well, want it better

[Juan Carlos Castro y Castro]

Hi people, I'm happy to say my little recovery CD is working like a charm. I dominated the intricacies of static linking, LILO, ramdisks, mkisofs and fdisk scripting necessary for the task, and everything Just Works (TM). Now I'gonna convince Da Boss to allow me to publish the details as Tom suggested. Shouldn't be a problem, like the kidnapper said in "Ransom". ;-P

But now I want an itsy-bitsy thing more: instead of the drab input dialogs I have now, I'd like to use "dialog". Like I did for "eject", I compiled the thing static. In addition to glibc-devel-static, I had to install ncurses-devel-static too. OK, it compiled and executed in my development machine (Conectiva 8). But from tomsrtbt, it complains of no terminal support.

What kind of terminal support would be necessary for "dialog" (ncurses, actually) to work? I tried to link to /etc/terminfo from a Debian /etc, to no avail. The TERM variable is set. Any suggestions would be welcome.

Cheers,
Juan

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