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Date:      Sun, 18 Jan 2004 00:54:55 +1100
From:      Gautam Gopalakrishnan <ggop@madras.dyndns.org>
To:        Didier WIROTH <didier.wiroth@mcesr.etat.lu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: starting /stand/sysinstall in single user mode, how?
Message-ID:  <20040117135455.GA64674@madras.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <0HRM00E0AZLTGW@mail.etat.lu>
References:  <0HRM00E0AZLTGW@mail.etat.lu>

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On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 02:46:47PM +0100, Didier WIROTH wrote:
> hi,
> (concerns freebsd 5.2-release)
> when I restart in single user mode with: "shutdown now"
> I choose: /bin/csh as my shell.
> Set TERM variable: set TERM cons25
> and try to start sysinstall: /stand/sysinstall
> 
> A message appears:
> Try to set the TERM variable before using sysinstall
> Sysinstall will use ASCII mode .. 
> (The message is not 100% exact)
> It looks like it doesn't accept or recognize the TERM variable? What's wrong
> with my TERM variable, I have also tried:
> set TERM=cons25 or anything imaginable, nothing worked!

For csh, try:
setenv TERM cons25

bye
Gautam



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