Re: Recovery CD going well, want it better

Maybe you need to convince your ncurses to have termcap fallback support?

Installing terminfo requires more than just the /etc, I think.  -Tom

On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Juan Carlos Castro y Castro wrote:

> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 14:20:28 -0200
> From: Juan Carlos Castro y Castro <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [tomsrtbt] 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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