venture37@hotmail.com wrote:

> I've managed to boot the i386 box just fine off the CD &
> my Qube2 has netbooted ok only problem is that paneld
> has not started so there is no indication of how far
> the install has proceeded.

FYI, during installation the restorecd script writes information
directly via /dev/panel. paneld is not running at that time.

Any characters on the LCD will be cleared once after
a kernel is running (i.e. /dev/panel is attached properly),
so install kernel is not running at all in your case.
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Izumi Tsutsui