Re: kernel 1.3.67 and terminal

Phillip (pj22298@appstate.edu)
Fri, 1 Mar 1996 00:57:17 +0000 ( )


On Thu, 29 Feb 1996, Clay Hopkins wrote:

>
> Hiya! I've just installed kernel v. 1.3.67 on my machine, and I now get
> an error when booting that says my terminal type is unknown. When I do
> an echo TERM, I get "linux". Since the type is unknown according to the
> kernel, I can't run anything even as simple as vi! Any suggestions or
> help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> C. Hopkins
Simple temp solution: Copy the terminfo file for something like 'console'
(or even vt100) to linux.
("cd /usr/lib/terminfo" and explore)
or, even simpler, "TERM=vt100".

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