Disable frame buffer / boot in text mode?

[Erik Dykema <ed2019@columbia.edu>]

Hi-
	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.

thanks for any help,
erik@columbia