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Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 23:12:06 -0700 (PDT)
From: Adi <aditya@grot.org>
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Subject: i386/42022: sysinstall in non-interactive mode prompts when only a serial console is present
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>Number:         42022
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       sysinstall in non-interactive mode prompts when only a serial console is present
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Aug 25 23:20:01 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Adi
>Release:        4-STABLE
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD rlx5 4.6-STABLE FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE #1: Sat Aug 24 01:26:53 PDT 2002     aditya@six:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/RLX  i386     
>Description:
when doing a non-interactive PXE install onto a machine with just a serial console (using set console=comconsole in loader.rc) sysinstall prompts for the terminal type -- if non-interactive, it should use a default terminal type
>How-To-Repeat:
do a non-interactive PXE install as per Alfred Perlstein's PXE install instructions onto a machine with no video card
>Fix:
under 4-STABLE, /usr/src/release/sysinstall/termcap.c the prompt_term function should check if the install is non-interactive and RunningAsInit is true and in that case just use the default ANSI compatible term type -- it should be pretty simple, but I am not able to understand the way variable_get(VAR_NONINTERACTIVE) works to put in the test myself.     
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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