On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Eric Delaunay wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Machine is a Sparc IPX with generic 4x16MB 36-bit SIMMS and OEM hard > > drive on serial console. > > > > > > Booted by TFTP > > > > Console is `minicom' running on Slink i386. Noticed that dbootstrap is > > not drawing with the IBM `box' characters like 2.1 dbootstrap did. > > Pass TERM=vt100 or TERM=vt102 at boot time. Current init process does not > enforce TERM settings anymore ;(( I don't know wether I will enable it again > or just let the user pass TERM=xxx at boot time. Maybe a serial target for > silo could also be helpful for floppy boot. > On this topic, do you know about a way of identifying the type of console > connected to the serial line ? Is there an escape sequence that returns vt100 > or the like ? There is such a beastie as far as I've heard, but I don't know what it might be. You might check the `ctlseqs.ms' file in the xterm source to see what xterm uses, then check it against minicom. The file is 14k compressed, in case anyone needs a copy. I've read the thing, but I'm not even a novice at reading escape codes. ;>