Erik Dykema wrote: > I would like to boot the installer in text mode, not in framebuffer > mode. I need it this way because we install remotely on headless > servers, and see the console via serial port and/or remote management > hardware, which does text mode. > In woody vanilla / bf24 this was possible by appending > "video=vga16:off" at boot time, it would not start the frame buffer and > everything would be perfect. > This seems to not work with sarge however. Is there a new way of > doing it? I hope this functionality has not been lost. Beta 1 of the debian installer does not support this, but we have since added it. Boot "linux debian-installer/framebuffer=false". This is document in the boot help screens. -- see shy jo
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