monitor 640x480

[Dan Shearer]

On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 02:21:34PM +0200, Florian wrote:

> now i downloaded the Ubuntu 8.0.4 "Alternate CD". Booting from this CD
> starts with the same two screens as the server-CD does.
> These two initial screens (1. language selection/help system; 2. Install
> ubuntu server) cannot be displayed with a
> 640x480-only-monitor.

In a quick sidestep, serial console should work fine if there's
somewhere to plug one in, or if DPMI is working (and you use a client
other than openipmi shipped by Ubuntu, which doesn't currently do
serial-over-LAN although I'm told the server team is onto it.)

Hmm, this brings up a trivial installer mod I've thought about before,
it would very good to have a setting where serial console could be used
with the output going to tty1, ie the VGA screen. Florian's situation
isn't the only one where this would help.

-- 
Dan Shearer
dan at shearer.org