Re: sysinstall and the Right Terminal

2010-01-25 Thread Martin McCormick
Thomas Dickey writes: Terminal would probably be one of the programs using VTE, which differs from linux. This is all very interesting. Thanks to all. What I normally do is start a command-line shell on a Debian Linux box. This defaults to a linux console. When I ssh somewhere, ssh

Re: sysinstall and the Right Terminal

2010-01-25 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 09:25:21AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: Thomas Dickey writes: Terminal would probably be one of the programs using VTE, which differs from linux. This is all very interesting. Thanks to all. What I normally do is start a command-line shell on a Debian Linux

Re: sysinstall and the Right Terminal

2010-01-24 Thread Frank Shute
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 12:48:32PM -0700, Dale Scott wrote: Using Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) and GNOME Terminal 2.28.1, $TERM is Xterm. $ echo $TERM Xterm $ The only thing I'd change about the mapping is that I'd rather flash the screen instead of ringing the bell. Put:

Re: sysinstall and the Right Terminal

2010-01-23 Thread Martin McCormick
Dale Scott writes: I don't have a solution but can report I regularily login to my fbsd 7 and 8 boxes from an Ubuntu laptop using ssh in Terminal and run sysinstall. I've never encountered this problem though. Thank you for responding. If you type echo $TERM or just the command env Is

Re: sysinstall and the Right Terminal

2010-01-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 08:01:41AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: Dale Scott writes: I don't have a solution but can report I regularily login to my fbsd 7 and 8 boxes from an Ubuntu laptop using ssh in Terminal and run sysinstall. I've never encountered this problem though. Thank you

RE: sysinstall and the Right Terminal

2010-01-23 Thread Dale Scott
-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Martin McCormick Sent: January-23-10 7:02 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysinstall and the Right Terminal ... Is TERM = linux or something else? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: sysinstall and the Right Terminal

2010-01-22 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:10:15 -0600, Martin McCormick mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu wrote: If one logs in to a FreeBSD system from a Linux platform, the terminal type is set to linux which is compatible with a vt100. What about using $TERM = xterm or cons25 (or cons25l1)? -- Polytropon

Re: sysinstall and the Right Terminal

2010-01-22 Thread Dale Scott
If one logs in to a FreeBSD system from a Linux platform, the terminal type is set to linux which is compatible with a vt100. As soon as I run sysinstall, things go to the dogs very fast. It is as if there was no terminal emulation in effect I don't have a solution but can report I

Re: sysinstall and the Right Terminal

2010-01-22 Thread Martin McCormick
Polytropon writes: What about using $TERM = xterm or cons25 (or cons25l1)? Thank you! I tried cons25 first and it worked very well. Since I am still actually receiving via the linux terminal definition, I was surprised it worked as well as it does. The cons25 must use many of the same