>> Is not very clear to me how to interact with d-I via qemu. > >I suspect it will be easier with bochs, as qemu is missing a >feature.
Do you know if is in the whishlist of future qemu releases? >bochs can use the 'term' console driver, and then use >normal stdin and stdout as the console. This console would be >easy to control using expect. You would have to tell d-i to >not enable framebuffer to get this to work, as bochs stops all >output to the tty terminal when framebuffer is enabled. > I see; I did install d-I using bochs a while back and get stuck when framebuffer was initialized: thanx for the tip. As for qemu: I tried it last night and I got the installation done quite easily. >qemu seem to lack such tty console, so I don't know how to do >it with qemu. :( I'll ask the #qemu people this evening... In the meanwhile thanx a lot Ciao D.