error opening terminal con80x25 during install

Hi, After having installed debian for the first time and logging in as root I got the opportunity to install packages with dselect. However, when dselect started, it gave the message: error opening terminal con80x25 and quit, leaving me with an almost empty system. The TERM variable was indeed

need help: error opening terminal con80x25 during install

Hi, I asked this question earlier but got no answer. Would very much like to try debian but can't run dselect. Please take a quick look... it can't be a difficult one: After having installed debian for the first time and logging in as root I got the opportunity to install packages with dselect.