On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 02:10:03PM -0400, Jeff Arbour wrote: > Same issue applies on IBM x236 server, was about to shelve debian and start > picking a new distro until I found this report. It never once occurred to me > that when choosing a text based install the installer would attempt to use a > graphic mode to do it in. The seems like broken administration of the > installer, rather than a technical mal-function. The whole purpose of text > mode imo is to give a generic works on any device environment as a fail safe > when graphical install fails or is not feasible. No vga mode should ever be > set for this option, nor anything that even considers a frame buffer. The > issue is very easy to resolve once understood, but this is a never should > have happened in the first place error to rival "No keyboard detected, Press > F1 to continue".
And how would you do say japanese text without a framebuffer? A framebuffer running text is not the same as a graphical install (which has windows, and mouse support and such). In fact a none frmaebuffer text mode is a rather unique thing on PCs, and of course on serial consoles. Most other systems have only frame buffers for their console. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110713201124.gs7...@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca