#986025 installation-reports: weird characters in network-console

#986025#5
Date:
2021-03-28 03:26:17 UTC
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Boot method: CD
Image version: https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/ppc64el/daily/netboot/mini.iso Mar 26 18:04
Date: 2021-03-26 to 2021-03-28 (yes it took three days, the machine was busy)

Machine: qemu-system-ppc64le
Partitions:
root@ppc64el:~# df -Tl
Filesystem     Type     1K-blocks    Used Available Use% Mounted on
udev           devtmpfs   2033152       0   2033152   0% /dev
tmpfs          tmpfs       416320    5312    411008   2% /run
/dev/vda2      ext4      48232140 1726160  44023448   4% /
tmpfs          tmpfs      2081472       0   2081472   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs          tmpfs         5120       0      5120   0% /run/lock
tmpfs          tmpfs      2081472       0   2081472   0% /var/cache/pbuilder/build/cow.1965/dev/shm
root@ppc64el:~# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/vda: 48 GiB, 51539607552 bytes, 100663296 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: D3EC9994-AFF1-4A12-BC03-3D2424D74D64

Device        Start       End  Sectors  Size Type
/dev/vda1      2048     16383    14336    7M PowerPC PReP boot
/dev/vda2     16384  98662399 98646016   47G Linux filesystem
/dev/vda3  98662400 100661247  1998848  976M Linux swap


Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot:           [O]
Detect network card:    [O]
Configure network:      [O]
Detect media:           [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Clock/timezone setup:   [O]
User/password setup:    [O]
Detect hard drives:     [O]
Partition hard drives:  [O]
Install base system:    [O]
Install tasks:          [O]
Install boot loader:    [O]
Overall install:        [E]

Comments/Problems:

Things worked well, except I switched to network-console and
had weird characters instead of line drawing, although both
outside and inside were GNU screen in UTF-8 mode.

I ended up with a UsrMerge system :(


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