[BRLTTY] qemu

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Sun Apr 5 18:50:47 EDT 2009


Daniel Dalton, le Mon 06 Apr 2009 08:39:11 +1000, a écrit :
> > Did you really request text mode?  By default the debian installer would
> > switch to framebuffer mode.
> 
> How do I request text mode?

By reading the installation manual:

http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch05s02.html.en

DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text

You need to type that at the boot prompt. For Lenny images, type tab to
get it.

> So I guess that means we can't run ubuntu live cds from within qemu?

Yes you can, but you can not get the output from the curses interface of
course. Also, remember to give it more than the default 128MB memory...

Samuel


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