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On Wed, Jun 09, 2021 at 05:46:47PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote |
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> I'm installing on a new machine. I much rather prefer doing it |
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> remote, so I can compare side by side with my current machine. But the |
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> terminal is badly scrambled. |
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Some more Google-searching suggested using "toe" to list off the TERM |
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types that are supported. Amongst them was "vt100", which brought back |
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memories of the 1990's <G>. So I... |
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* opened up an xterm, "su -", "cd /usr/src/linux", "make menuconfig" |
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* opened up another xterm window |
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* executed |
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export term="vt100" |
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* ssh'd into the install-in-progress (had to chroot again) |
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* "cd /usr/src/linux" and "make menuconfig" |
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Here's what my screen looks like (see attachment). The left side is |
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the machine I'm currently running on, and the right side is the |
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install-in-progress. It's barebones, but it works. And there's no way |
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I'll confuse my current desktop versus the install-in-progress <G>. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |