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I normally install Gentoo by manually typing in stuff, on the target |
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machine, as per the docs. This is painfull. Today I decided to ssh |
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into the install, and cut + paste stuff into an ssh xterm into the |
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install. This went flying along really fast until I went to emerge |
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after having updated make.conf. I got a slew of weird errors. |
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It turns out that make.conf was majorly butchered after I had done |
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some "simple" edits over ssh. This seems to be a terminfo problem, so |
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it may apply to more than just nano. But see... |
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https://serverfault.com/questions/329154/ssh-garbling-characters-in-vim-nano-on-remote-server |
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https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/1436 |
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I don't understand the workings of terminfo so my 3-part question is... |
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1) Can I do an incantation on the laptop (install machine) to make it |
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understand my desktop's xterm? |
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2) Can I do an incantation on the desktop's xterm, or install another |
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terminal, to make its output understandable to the target machine? |
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3) Or do I have to pull the laptop onto my desk, and type in stuff |
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manually for everything nano-related during the install? |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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