> On Tue, 5 Mar 1996, Kenneth Albanowski wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
> > Add "linux" to to "console" entry in your /etc/terminfo file, like this:
> >
> > console|linux|con80x25|dumb:\
> > ^^^^^^
>
> Sorry for a silly response - but HOW, since terminal required for all
> known editors. Okay, so it's an off-topic,much bally-hoo'd subject
> [Fall/94 I think was when 'linux' console type added].
You want to say that you can't edit your file? Ever read the fine
article about "ed", the editor in the Emacs etc directory?
Anyway, try "env TERM=console vi /etc/termcap or-whatever"
>
> This is still a REAL pain for me ('xcept when I remember _BEFORE_
> upgrading kernel). The newest ver. of Linux I have on CD is 1.something
> Slackware (ow).
>
> Thankfully, I haven't lost a Linux partition since the great grand
> experience with big drives last fall. Kudo: Don't run >500M drives on
> old IDE system. You lose data. Badly.
>
>