Hello, Roger Shimizu, on Tue 13 Sep 2016 00:35:45 +0900, wrote: > invoking screen is in script: > - > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/rootskel.git/tree/src/sbin/debian-installer > > It uses system's $TERM, if bterm fails in screen, maybe it's a bug of screen?
Err, it's not really a bug: bterm needs to be run on the VT, otherwise it can't do its work, i.e. draw the text itself on the linux framebuffer. Put another way, it has to be screen that should be run inside bterm, rather than bterm run inside screen (which can't work). Furthermore, please read other /lib/debian-installer.d scripts, they do assume that they are running on the VT, for instance S40term-linux turns off console blanking, but only if TERM is linux. Running all these inside screen drops a lot of support... Put another way, why stuffing the screen support in the debian-installer script rather than in S70menu, as bterm does? Samuel
