Re: switching frontend on the fly

[stappers@stappers.nl (Geert Stappers)]

Op 25-11-2006 om 11:31 schreef Jérôme Marant:
> Le vendredi 24 novembre 2006 15:01, Attilio Fiandrotti a écrit :
> > 
> > Try this by yourself
> > 
> > - boot an amd64 image with DEBIAN_FRONTEND=newt
> > - proceed with installation process until full libc6 is unpacked
> > - wget libgcc_s.so.1 into the installer
> > - export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gtk
> > - debian-installer
> > 
> > now you should be able to chvt without crashing anymore.
> 
> Thanks for finding this bug!
> 
> I didn't know that you could change the frontend on the fly.
> So you interrupted it right after installing the libc and
> restarted after changing the frontend?


I'm also curious about how to switch the frontend.

My use case for it is running d-i on a slow (e.g. old) computer
which default starts with newt frontend and switching to text frontend
would allow the CPU to spend it's power on d-i rather then
redrawing/updating the screen.


Cheers
Geert Stappers