Steve Campbell wrote: > R300? Dell PowerEdge R300 > Don't have or know what a serial monitor is also. Null modem cable from the serial port to another system running a terminal emulator, and installing via text mode. You could also try editing the grub config from the boot menu and disabling any vga options in there, also you could boot to single user mode and make sure X doesn't load on boot by setting the runlevel to 3 in /etc/inittab nate