[Help-nano] help for a micro distro

[Elio Blanca]

Hi,
i'm trying to build a micro distro puttin' my favourite tools onto two 
floppy disks and i would like to use nano also, but when i launch 'nano' 
it doesn't open its window telling: "Error opening terminal: linux." and 
quits.
So, what does this error mean? i really don't know. I have the 
environment variable TERM=linux and the file /etc/termcap does contain 
an entry called linux, what am i missing? Do i need some particular file?
Thank you,
topolinik