Hi Jens -- You said: > Yesterday I tried to install the base-disks from buzz-fixed/binary-i386/disks > (feivel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de). > [snip] > - The $TERM Environment-Variable is set to "con80x25" on my system which > caused dselect to print an error-message and exit - no possibility to install > additional packages... (Error-Message something like "Error opening terminal: > con80x25.") >
I looked at the bootfloppies scripts, and think this may be the correct explanation of your problem: I suspect TERM is set to con80x25 in the kernel. I found it being reset in dinstall, which comes on the Debian boot disk and root disk. (You mentioned the base disks, not the boot and root disks, but I assume you also got the boot disk and root disk. ?) The script dinstall looks as if it sets TERM to linux if you choose Color installation just after you've inserted the boot disk. It sets TERM to linux-m if you choose Monochrome installation. It doesn't set TERM at all if you choose neither, but simply to continue with the installation without specifying either Color or Monochrome. Then TERM gets set to linux again when you "configure" the system. This includes: -- writing /etc/root.sh to /target/root/.configure, -- writing /etc/setup.sh to /target/sbin/setup.sh, -- configuring the keyboard (which is where TERM is set to linux), and -- configuring the timezone. If you chose neither Monochrome nor Color installation, and if you somehow interrupted the process while you were setting up your keyboard, then linux would have remained set at the value given in the kernel. HTH, Susan Kleinmann
