Larry O'Neill (H.S.A.) wrote: > I've been trying to install debian on a server, but it doesnt have > a video card, so I am connecting to it via console. However, when I type > "linux DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text" at the boot prompt, it goes through the > initial stuff, but then gives me the error: That would change the deconf frontend to a very basic one that will work on any teletype. If you have any kind of reasonable console on the thing (such as a serial console), you don't need that, you should just be able to boot with debconf/framebuffer=false to disable use of the framebuffer, and whatever other kernel command line options you need to make it use your serial console. If you do want to use the debconf text frontend for some reason, it's not available in all installer images since it doesn't make sense to include it in all of them. You'll find that frontend on the netboot images and on a few scattered other images for some lesser-used Debian architectures. -- see shy jo
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