Sándor Bárány wrote: > Debian-installer-version: > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/installer-i386/20040102/images/hd-media-image.img.gz > sarge-i386-netinst-iso from a mirror of the November 11th version That's very old, and it would be better to use the daily builds. In particular, the current images have documented, working ways to turn off the frame buffer. -- see shy jo