how to use text mode during installation part 2?

Andrew Farris lordmorgul at gmail.com
Mon Dec 17 04:22:08 UTC 2007


Fulko Hew wrote:
> Graphics stuff was installed.  Actually, whatever the  'live CD'
> installs was installed.  You don't get to choose the packages.
> 
> The problem is/was:
> 
> Now that X attempts to pick the best resolution for the video
> card/monitor...
> what happens when it picks wrong?  Thats whats happening in his case.
> His GUI was unreadable, so he couldn't proceed.

In this case if the X config for firstboot had identified several available
resolutions you may have been able to cycle through them with ctrl-alt-- and
ctrl-alt-+ at that point.  Obviously it would be preferable for X to do this
cycling if its output is garbled, but whether its garbled or not isn't always
obvious to X. ;)

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