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Debian Text only install
flap:
No, we're saying the opposite of that, i.e. that it *has no* graphical install, and *only* has a text mode install.
Calum:
quote:Originally posted by Panos:
Eh, since when does Debian have a graphical installer? I recently installed Debian 3.0 in text mode only with no option for a graphical installation. I'm confused. :confused:
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hey! this reply and the one before it came in after i wrote that post of mine above, well i assumed it had a graphical installer since the symptoms of X not working have happened all too often before on this laptop when trying to install various linuces.
So if it's a text only install, why am i getting this problem with the black screen???????
Calum:
quote:Originally posted by flap:
No, we're saying the opposite of that, i.e. that it *has no* graphical install, and *only* has a text mode install.
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!!!!!!!!!! we're all posting at once!!!!!11
i know that now! i was typing while you were posting.
all i want to know is how to get it to NOT have that horrible black screen. i get a prompt that looks like this:
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and whatever i type, the screen goes black, and you can't ctrl-alt-f*, you can't ctrl-alt-backspace, you can't ctrl-c, you can't see anything except blackness. this is exactly what happened on red hat 7.0 when you tried to startx. red hat would install okay, but this would happen when you try to startx, and it's a video card problem. BUT I AM NOT DOING startx HERE! i am TRYING to boot the debian installer.
this was always an annoying problem because unlike a real server crash, the system doesn't actually figure out that X isn't working, and you just get a frozen black screen - the end.
it sucks.
no ideas then?
Pantso:
After the boot prompt and if you pressed Enter, you should be able to see the kernel booting and immediately after the Debian text installer. Since the kernel does not even boot then I would assume that there's something wrong with the CDs you're trying to install Debian from. As you wrote, even if a distro's installer fails to detect your graphics card or controller (in your case the SiS chipset), it would automatically choose the VESA framebuffer driver and continue with that.
[ February 03, 2003: Message edited by: Panos ]
flap:
Try the same thing on another machine and see if you get any further.
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