change the size of the font in the plain old terminal(not X)

[cotfessi]

i'm not really sure if this is even possible or not, but when I boot my machine up, I'm at the command line. I then issue a startx if I want to use X. The thing is I have a huge 21" viewable area monitor and the font size at the CLI is ridiculously big! Is there a way that I can increase my resolution or shrink the font size?

I'm running the debian testing tree with a PII 300 with 196mb RAM and an ATI Rage 128 video card if that helps?

thanks
-cotfessi

[bdl]

Yeah, you'll probably want to look into the framebuffer (http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Framebuffer-HOWTO-5.html). I'll almost always setup a vesafb on a machine I know I'm not going to use X on, it allows you a few more font and res options on the CLI. Luck!