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Old 01-28-2011
Console Login with Term Type
I have a sunfire v480 and a v440 that both have an issue with logging into the text based console as opposed to JDE.

It looks like the text is wrapping around, because it is too long for the screen.

When I run something like `system-unconfig` i get something that looks like this.

[ ] Networking
[ ] Non-Networking

If i want to select the Networking option I have to move down to the Non-Networking line and the end result is:

[X] Networking
[X] Non-Networking

To select anything you have to move the cursor to the line below what you would like to select.

TERM=sun is the default, I have tried setting the TERM to all of the other sun types(sun1, sun2, sun-e...) as well as trying most of the vt100 types especially the vt100-w for more columns.

None of these have worked and I have run out of ideas. Is this a common issue. Looking online has revealed only one other issue and noone commented on it.

I am a newer developer with not too much Solaris experience. Any ideas would be very helpful.
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Old 01-28-2011
Does stty columns 80 help? That shouldn't reconfigure the terminal, just the OS's opinion of the terminal...
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Old 01-28-2011
When I run `infocmp` it says cols#80, I tried running "stty columns 80" but there was no change.
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