Lisi Reisz composed on 2015-03-30 11:18 (UTC+0100):
[1] included on installation cmdline: tasks="standard" vga=791 video=1024x768@60
The required resolution depends surely on the monitor one is using?
Absolutely. The question is what's required for you, bigger text, bigger screen, bigger both? 1024x768 is a low res mode supported on some pretty big screens. Text 14pt & up is readily doable. Lower resolution still means bigger yet text. 80x25 on a TV screen can produce seriously large text.
Yes, I know. But it needs configuring. It isn't like that by default.
I thought 80x25 just alter4d the width of the columns. This time it is I who do not understand/know enough.
I just booted the Ubuntu aka Debian Installer with the following added to the cmdline
splash=0 vga=normal video=640x480
The resulting vtty text is the same size as when booting DOS, 80 columns by 25 rows. On a 41.0 cm x 26.0 cm (19" diagonal) screen that results in text somewhere in the vicinity of 24pt. This to me sounds like it would be usable for you. If not, a bigger screen like 69.8 cm x 39.3 cm (31.5" diagonal) ought to get somewhere around 32pt-36pt.
If those produce too big you could try
splash=0 vga=785 video=800x600
which would shrink text size down by around 1/3, giving about 100 columns wide by 37 rows tall.
I have a hard time imagining a terminal emulator doing better than either of these two simple to implement configurations.