What terminal type should I select for Putty when installing Solaris?
Dave
second is what sort of terminal you have (vt100, dtterm, PC console etc). If one
gets that wrong, installation can be difficult, as pressing the space bar over
one item actually selects the one below it.
Does anyone know the best choice for the terminal? I might well be able to
answer this myself in an hour or so, as I try 'boot cdrom' and lots of different
terminal until I hit one that works well.
dave
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Dave
> When one installs Solaris, the first question is what language you want.
> The second is what sort of terminal you have (vt100, dtterm, PC console
> etc). If one gets that wrong, installation can be difficult, as pressing
> the space bar over one item actually selects the one below it.
>
> Does anyone know the best choice for the terminal? I might well be able
> to answer this myself in an hour or so, as I try 'boot cdrom' and lots
> of different terminal until I hit one that works well.
>
> dave
>
I should have stated.
* Sun Netra T1
* Sony laptop with USB/serial adapter.
* Solaris 10 03/2005. (first release of S10)
Thomas Maier-Komor
> Dave wrote:
>> When one installs Solaris, the first question is what language you
>> want. The second is what sort of terminal you have (vt100, dtterm, PC
>> console etc). If one gets that wrong, installation can be difficult,
>> as pressing the space bar over one item actually selects the one below
>> it.
>>
>> Does anyone know the best choice for the terminal? I might well be
>> able to answer this myself in an hour or so, as I try 'boot cdrom' and
>> lots of different terminal until I hit one that works well.
>>
>> dave
>>
>
>
> I should have stated.
>
> * Sun Netra T1
> * Sony laptop with USB/serial adapter.
> * Solaris 10 03/2005. (first release of S10)
>
> dave
Hi Dave,
I haven't done an install via putty, but in my experience setting the
terminal type to xterm or xtermc works pretty well.
HTH,
Thomas
Dave
Thank you. Choice number 13 (I forget what that was) did work. I'll post an
update when I find out what it was - the install is in progress just now.
Richard B. Gilbert
> When one installs Solaris, the first question is what language you want.
> The second is what sort of terminal you have (vt100, dtterm, PC console
> etc). If one gets that wrong, installation can be difficult, as pressing
> the space bar over one item actually selects the one below it.
>
> Does anyone know the best choice for the terminal? I might well be able
> to answer this myself in an hour or so, as I try 'boot cdrom' and lots
> of different terminal until I hit one that works well.
>
> dave
>
ANSI standard X3.64 (now withdraw and replaced by ISO/IEC 6429).
If you don't have VT-100/200 compatible hardware (or software
emulation), doing so would probably be a complete waste of time, source
of frustration, etc.
Dave
13) CDE Terminal Emulator (dtterm)
seems to work quite well as a terminal with Putty.
Doug McIntyre
>Does anyone know the best choice for the terminal? I might well be able to
>answer this myself in an hour or so, as I try 'boot cdrom' and lots of different
>terminal until I hit one that works well.
It depends alot on what your software terminal emulator supports and
does, but I've found VT100 to be very basic that everything tries to
emulate fairly well.
If you have your terminal emulator running in an xterm, the xterm
emulation works well too.
I wonder if there's any Solaris installations that actually use Wyse
or Televideo or something else long dead and forgotten off the list
any longer. (Although there's a DEC VT220 and a Wyse WY30 still
kicking around my data center here, although I'm pretty sure the DEC
is long dead).
Dave
I thought I'd tried VT100 with limited success in the past, as that was the
obvious lowest common denominator. The 'dtterm' seems fine for me at least.
There may be others that work equally well, even better, but that one is fine.
I just started the install, then realised I wanted ZFS boot, so started again.
Then I realised Solaris 10 03/2005 did not support ZFS boot, so I'm restarting
the installation for the 5th or 6th time now.
Finally it seems to be going ok, and I can get on with something more else.
Colin B.
> Dave wrote:
>> When one installs Solaris, the first question is what language you want.
>> The second is what sort of terminal you have (vt100, dtterm, PC console
>> etc). If one gets that wrong, installation can be difficult, as pressing
>> the space bar over one item actually selects the one below it.
>>
>> Does anyone know the best choice for the terminal? I might well be able
>> to answer this myself in an hour or so, as I try 'boot cdrom' and lots
>> of different terminal until I hit one that works well.
>>
>> dave
>>
> I'd suggest "VT-100" or "VT-200" compatible These are a super set of
> ANSI standard X3.64 (now withdraw and replaced by ISO/IEC 6429).
I'd suggest vt102 over vt100, or if you can go fancy, vt220.
> If you don't have VT-100/200 compatible hardware (or software
> emulation), doing so would probably be a complete waste of time, source
> of frustration, etc.
This is the key. Set what you want on the Solaris side, but make sure that
you set the same thing on the putty side. (You can do some pretty good
terminal emulation in putty, if you dig deeply enough.)
Colin