[Simh] vax / netbsd screen characters during install

[Tim Pinkawa]

On 11/14/06, Vorländer, Martin <MV at pdv-systeme.de> wrote:
> sam wrote:
> > the NetBSD installer displays its menus with lots of strange
> > characters all over the place (the terminal it thinks it has is very
> > incompatible with my Windows XP cmd shell, and it is
> > difficult to figure out what the screens are asking me for.
> >
> > Is there some way to work around this?
>
> I'm assuming that the installer uses a VT terminal emulation.
> If it does, you can "switch on" temrinal emulation by adding
> the statement "SET CONSOLE TELNET=12001" to your INI file, and
> pointing some terminal emulator (Hyperterm if you don't have
> anything else) towards port 12001 (the port number is just an
> example). With the default "SET CONSOLE NOTELNET" the console
> stays in the cmd window where SIMH was started from - without
> any terminal emulation.
>
> HTH,
>  Martin
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PuTTY works well. I just used it to install NetBSD yesterday. Follow
Martin's steps to setup the telnet server, then connect to localhost
port 12001 with PuTTY (make sure to set it to Telnet, not SSH).

You can get PuTTY here: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

Tim