> I experienced the same error this morning on my DS3100, and I too made sure
> to issue the "set TERM=pmax; export TERM;" command before running sysinst.

unless I am being very stupid,

TERM=pmax
export TERM

worked for my DS5000/200

(whereas xdm worked only once!! but I'll make it work! ;-)
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