what to do when X install fails?

[Brian Craft]

On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 08:12:05PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 11:30:51AM -0800, Brian Craft wrote:
> 
> > I just did a warty install, and X was never installed. There were no
> > warnings or error messages, it just didn't install any of the X stuff.
> 
> Perhaps you requested a "custom" install?  

No.

> That's the only way that this can
> happen without severe errors (and corresponding messages).

This is apparently false. I didn't get any error messages during the
install. Are they reported on another VT, or in a file somewhere?

After some time with the installer I discovered I could pass in
"debian-installer/framebuffer=false" at boot. That avoids the problem
with the server, and the X packages are installed. However it also
grossly modifies the install process, for reasons I don't pretend to
understand. Instead of automatically stepping through the install
process, it presents a menu with each step, and every item must be
manually selected in turn. I have no idea what this has to do with
"framebuffer=false". It's rather bizarre.


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