On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 02:32:53PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Would it not be better to use the variable in rootskel to detect that the > > terminal is a serial terminal, namely those who delcare themselves to be : > > > > TERM_TYPE=serial in rootskel/src/lib/debian-installer/detect-console-linux > > I think it can be an interesting option to investigate. How deeply > would be the patch to do that?
I am not sure. There may be some trick, since the TERM_TYPE case has more serial devices than the finish-install one. That said, i think we could check for TERM_TYPE=serial, and if so, guess the console from $console, with a few heuristic for the less evident cases. I would like comments from Bastian, and others with knowledge of the less evident detect-console-linux serial cases to go further here. > > Furthermore, i have personally found out that it is interesting to enable > > a serial console in /etc/inittab even in non-serial installs, Maybe a > > debconf > > question of low priority would allow this to be preseeded or set in expert > > installs ? Maybe too late for etch now, but still something to keep in mind. > > Interesting. That would help indeed. > > But maybe instead of enabling it by default or using a debconf > question would be eaiser to use a command line param to enable > it. What do you think? The best would be a defaulting to no debconf question, maybe even a n invisible one, so you can preseed it. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]