From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 23 04:31:39 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AF77106566B for ; Sat, 23 Jan 2010 04:31:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu) Received: from dc.cis.okstate.edu (dc.cis.okstate.edu [139.78.103.93]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EF748FC08 for ; Sat, 23 Jan 2010 04:31:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dc.cis.okstate.edu (localhost.cis.okstate.edu [127.0.0.1]) by dc.cis.okstate.edu (8.14.2/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o0N4VOOh084975 for ; Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:31:24 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu) Message-Id: <201001230431.o0N4VOOh084975@dc.cis.okstate.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <84972.1264221084.1@dc.cis.okstate.edu> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:31:24 -0600 From: Martin McCormick Subject: Re: sysinstall and the Right Terminal X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 04:31:39 -0000 Polytropon writes: > What about using $TERM = xterm or cons25 (or cons25l1)? Thank you! I tried cons25 first and it worked very well. Since I am still actually receiving via the linux terminal definition, I was surprised it worked as well as it does. The cons25 must use many of the same escape sequences that vt100 style terminals do. The arrows appeared to work and the screen seemed to be formatted well enough. I left $TERM set to cons25 and tried vi on a file. It started out okay but some of the escape sequences are not compatible as things soon got messy. Even so, it is nice to know that sysinstall can be remotely run without too much strangeness. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group