Hi all, I'm trying to install Suse10 on an IBM RS/6000 H50, but when I boot from the cdrom and choose install it detects my terminal as an xterm. I'm using a serial console with minicom and the yast messages all get messed up. Normally I could do export TERM=vt100 but I don't see how I can do this when I choose install. Any suggestions? Erik. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.12.6/152 - Release Date: 31-10-2005
On Wed, Nov 02, Erik Janssen wrote:
Hi all,
I'm trying to install Suse10 on an IBM RS/6000 H50, but when I boot from the cdrom and choose install it detects my terminal as an xterm. I'm using a serial console with minicom and the yast messages all get messed up. Normally I could do export TERM=vt100 but I don't see how I can do this when I choose install. Any suggestions?
Can you pass it as a kernel cmdline option? It will end up in the enviroment of linuxrc, and linuxrc parses also /proc/cmdline and may set TERM= to that value. -- short story of a lazy sysadmin: alias appserv=wotan
Unfortunately it doesn't work. Can't get yast to start in textmode. I found a bypass however with UUCP, which is able to reasonably display the xterm version of yast. I now start: *cu -l /dev/ttyS0 -s 9600* to connect to the serial port and it works much better. Erik. Olaf Hering wrote:
On Wed, Nov 02, Erik Janssen wrote:
Hi all,
I'm trying to install Suse10 on an IBM RS/6000 H50, but when I boot from the cdrom and choose install it detects my terminal as an xterm. I'm using a serial console with minicom and the yast messages all get messed up. Normally I could do export TERM=vt100 but I don't see how I can do this when I choose install. Any suggestions?
Can you pass it as a kernel cmdline option? It will end up in the enviroment of linuxrc, and linuxrc parses also /proc/cmdline and may set TERM= to that value.
-- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.12.6/152 - Release Date: 31-10-2005
On Wed, Nov 02, Erik Janssen wrote:
Unfortunately it doesn't work. Can't get yast to start in textmode. I found a bypass however with UUCP, which is able to reasonably display the xterm version of yast. I now start:
*cu -l /dev/ttyS0 -s 9600*
to connect to the serial port and it works much better.
You can also try a VNC installation. Boot with 'install vnc=1', linuxrc will ask you for a temporary password. Use a 6, 7 or 8 chars password. -- short story of a lazy sysadmin: alias appserv=wotan
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