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console ?? I surrender



Hi looking for some fresh ideas.

I've been trying on and off for over a week to get the console running with no luck, obviously I'm missing something simple.

The install seems to go well using the Debian CD. I native-install twice, install the install.sh and gui.sh from the cdrom, create the links for kdb and mouse; but when I execute the console command the screen goes blank and the only way out is to shut it down, reboot and run fsck a few times.

I've tried the console command with both the --repeat=<name> and --repeat=<path to name> with the same result.

example: $ console -d vga -d pc_kbd --repeat=/dev/kbd \
-d pc_mouse --repeat=/dev/mouse -c /dev/cons /dev/vcs

I've tried partition sizes from 2gig down to 900mb, and memory settings from 512mb to 384mb, but they all fail the same way..... Like the subject line says, I surrender.

My computer is an Asus A7N8X with an Athlon XP3200 in case there's an issue with one of those. Also I'm using a hard drive on the secondary IDE slave - hdd1.

Thanks for any hints.

John

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