Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Mar 1996 18:18:02 -0700 (MST) | From | tpeters <> | Subject | Re: kernel 1.3.67 and terminal |
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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].
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.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Different subject: Hard drives and $#%# distributers! ----------------- PS. Anyone have a solution to drive-size dilemma? It seems I can't get a drive smaller than 1G IDE anymore. And EIDE isn't available for my computer (ISA 486). [there also seems to be some trouble addressing >500M on the IDE host adapter - which was the REAL cause of my data loss].
I'm currently using an old Adaptec 1542B and SCSI drives, but this is a _REAL_ problem!
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