On Thursday 27 September 2001 01:09, you wrote: > Howdy, > > Am I confused about what text-mode means? > > I have tried appending both text and nofb in syslinux.cfg > but I'm still getting progress bars and dialog boxes. > > Can someone straighten me on this :-) > > Thank you for your help... The text-mode is not really text-mode :) It's with curses, so you will get these dialog boxes and progress bars. Why this is so, is because that this is more text based than the graphic-mode, wich gives you an X windows interface during the installation.