Hello, Philip Hands, on Sun 20 Nov 2016 12:20:38 +0100, wrote: > Martin Michlmayr <t...@cyrius.com> writes: > > > * Samuel Thibault <sthiba...@debian.org> [2016-11-16 23:03]: > >> But AIUI the intent was to have screen in ssh connections too. > > > > I'm not sure what the intent was. I assume you're right because Roger > > didn't exclude screen from the network-console images. Personally, > > I'm not sure I see the point of screen in that case because you can > > always open a second SSH connection and open a terminal, but I don't > > have strong feelings either way if there's an advantage of having > > screen in such cases. > > I'd think that the advantage is that one could start a serial install up > to the point that the network comes up, and then hijack it onto the ssh > session so that one gets to see the same install (as well as any other > shells you might have started).
Mmm, that's a nice idea indeed. I've eventually uploaded the -x fix, which gives us that behavior, and also allowing several people to follow the installation, interact, etc. Samuel