Bug#98629: Selecting.../Unpacking... text messes up serial console

2001-05-28 Thread Richard Hirst
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 06:04:05PM -0700, David Whedon wrote: > Thu, May 24, 2001 at 11:54:50PM +0100 wrote: > > On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 02:25:17PM -0700, David Whedon wrote: > > > I may have an explanation, but am not sure of the solution. When we inovke > > > debotstrap we communicate with in t

Bug#98629: Selecting.../Unpacking... text messes up serial console

2001-05-27 Thread David Whedon
Thu, May 24, 2001 at 11:54:50PM +0100 wrote: > On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 02:25:17PM -0700, David Whedon wrote: > > I may have an explanation, but am not sure of the solution. When we inovke > > debotstrap we communicate with in through it's stdin and fd 3. We redirect > > debootstrap's stdout and

Bug#98629: Selecting.../Unpacking... text messes up serial console

2001-05-24 Thread Richard Hirst
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 02:25:17PM -0700, David Whedon wrote: > I may have an explanation, but am not sure of the solution. When we inovke > debotstrap we communicate with in through it's stdin and fd 3. We redirect > debootstrap's stdout and stderr to /dev/tty4. stdout and stderr have those >

Bug#98629: Selecting.../Unpacking... text messes up serial console

2001-05-24 Thread David Whedon
I may have an explanation, but am not sure of the solution. When we inovke debotstrap we communicate with in through it's stdin and fd 3. We redirect debootstrap's stdout and stderr to /dev/tty4. stdout and stderr have those messages described below. My guess is that when installing over a ser

Bug#98629: Selecting.../Unpacking... text messes up serial console

2001-05-24 Thread Richard Hirst
Package: boot-floppies Version: 2.4.3 I am using a serial console, on hppa. When deboostrap is installing the debs, I get text scrolling up my screen like this: Unpacking ppp (from .../archives/ppp_2.4.1-1_hppa.deb) ... S