On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 04:32:24PM +0100, Marc-Jano Knopp wrote: > There are two possibilities after letting the user tell the system > (e. g. via bootloader parameters) about having a gray-scale or > monochrome monitor: > > A) For both gray-scale and monochrome monitors: > > Use only black and white (with two grades of brightness) and > display the currently selected element with a special formatting, > i. e. inverted or underlined. > > B) For gray-scale monitors: > > In case the color-to-shades-of-gray mapping is (nearly) the same > everywhere, use more than two colors, but make sure that with the > given mapping, they are well distinguishable. > > Option "A" should be totally sufficient for installing Debian.
This is already possible, see "5.2.1. Debian Installer Parameters" in
the manual [1] :
DEBIAN_FRONTEND
This boot parameter controls the type of user interface used for the
installer. […]
DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text may be preferable for serial console installs.
debian-installer/theme (theme)
A theme determines how the user interface of the installer looks
(colors, icons, etc.). What themes are available differs per
frontend. Currently both the newt and gtk frontends only have a
“dark” theme that was designed for visually impaired users. Set
the theme by booting with theme=dark.
While the "text" frontend is less usable than the "newt" frontend, a
monitor able to display Linux boot messages will be sufficient to
perform the installation.
The "dark" theme should be enough for monochrome monitor as well, but I
cannot confirm this.
[1] http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch05s02.html#installer-args
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