> 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. ?)
Yes, I have. I chose Color-Install from the initial root-Disk menue and followed the NEXT-Menuitems most of the time - means: I initialized&mounted the swap Partition that is used by my slackware-Installation, too. I initialized and mounted (as "/") one of my linux-native Partitions and followed the install-procedure up to the point where lilo is going to be installed. At this point I left the installation-procedure and added the new root-Partition to my slackware-lilo.conf (and ran lilo). As far as I understood the initial contents of my debian-root-partition, with the next boot-time root gets automatic-login on the first virtual terminal (via inittab) and /root/.profile starts /root/.configure - right? > 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. I repeated the installation-procedure to avoid posting a false-alarm to the mailing-list. Both times I chose color - and both times TERM was set to "con80x25" when .configure called dselect :-( > 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. The most disturbing thing is now that I have to set TERM to a valid value manually even after configuring the system. Where is this variable set on a correctly conifgured debian-linux-system? Jens Peter.
