Recovery CD going well, want it better

Hi people, I'm happy to say my little recovery CD is working like a charm. I 
dominated the intricacies of static linking, LILO, ramdisks, mkisofs and 
fdisk scripting necessary for the task, and everything Just Works (TM). Now 
I'gonna convince Da Boss to allow me to publish the details as Tom 
suggested. Shouldn't be a problem, like the kidnapper said in "Ransom". ;-P

But now I want an itsy-bitsy thing more: instead of the drab input dialogs I 
have now, I'd like to use "dialog". Like I did for "eject", I compiled the 
thing static. In addition to glibc-devel-static, I had to install 
ncurses-devel-static too. OK, it compiled and executed in my development 
machine (Conectiva 8). But from tomsrtbt, it complains of no terminal support.

What kind of terminal support would be necessary for "dialog" (ncurses, 
actually) to work? I tried to link to /etc/terminfo from a Debian /etc, to 
no avail. The TERM variable is set. Any suggestions would be welcome.

Cheers,
Juan

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