Subject: Re: sysinst screen clear failures
To: Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv84@gmail.com>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: tech-install
Date: 07/29/2007 14:59:55
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 03:13:33PM +0200, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While installing NetBSD on a shark machine, I've found that sysinst
> fails to clear the screen on multiple situations. (I doubt this is
> specific to shark though.) One of this is as follows:
>
> 1. Select "Install NetBSD to hard disk"
> 2. Select "Yes"
> 3. Press enter.
> 4. Select "Full installation"
>
> At this point, the screen displays the "layout" menu but below the
> introductory text (and overlapped with the menu itself), the text
> from the previous menu (distset) appears twice in the background.
Sounds like a curses bug to me ...
Or possibly a bug in your terminal emulator.
The above looks like a 'normal' sequence, so has worked in the past!
David
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