Samuel Thibault writes: > Set the TERM environment variable to e.g. vt100 instead of linux. This turned out to be a little more involved but I sort of solved the problem. The TERM environment variable that works best for the FreeBSD sysinstall program and, I am sure, several others is a terminal type called cons25. If you run that, sysinstall works much better although not perfectly, you can sure use it. It almost works as one's default terminal type except that it has trouble with programs that are more centered toward the vt100 world. Vi, for example, works fine using either linux or vt100 and the environment value for $TERM but under cons25, one suddenly discovers that the J command to joine two lines together doesn't appear to work right. It actually does the joine operation in the file, but what you get on the screen looks as if it joined to the line below where your cursor is. It also becomes apparent later that stuff that was supposed to be erased isn't always being erased so you get a really messed-up screen and can't tell what is right. So, I just need to set cons25 as the environment variable to use freeBSD's sysinstall and set vt100 or linux as the default terminal for everything else. Martin McCormick _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list