Thanks to Roy Culley, who suggested the use of picocom (http://efault.net/npat/hacks/picocom/) instead of minicom for direct connections. This has helped - I still haven't got all the character support right, but I believe that that may be a result of running the serial session at the other end of an SSH connection from a UTF-8 terminal with the wrong font.... Anyway, picocom is giving me ANSI colour support over serial with a Dell server, which I've not managed to achieve with minicom. Others suggested just using vt100 or vt102 terminal emulation, and using a VT200 option during the installation. This can help during Solaris installs, but doesn't offer any assistance with BIOS screens. I'm still trying to improve things, with the idea being to manage all our servers (x86 and SPARC, Sun and non-Sun) via serial connections, so any further pointers would be appreciated, but things are definitely looking better..... :-) Mike _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Wed Jan 23 09:37:58 2008
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