On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 03:10:48PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > The thing is, that the serial terminal is rather crippled - some > things seem to get recognized, others not (function keys are > particularly problematic, though that might be the Mac term > program).
You might want to try xterm within X11. It's generally much more sane with relation to escape sequences. > So... general comment that, at least in the stable version, the > installer really doesn't support a basic remote serial terminal all > that well. It works just fine with HP iLO in ncurses mode and I'm pretty sure that I completed an installation on a Supermicro IPMI. I think the latter used console redirection, though, not true serial. In general, try to install from a linux box with a proper terminal. I've heared that one can emulate virtual machines nowadays. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121002210521.ga31...@hub.kern.lc
