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I had the exact same problem installing the bf24 kernel for Woody from the CD. It was quite frustrating, but now I now how to get around it. There were 2 problems.
1. For some reason the X window system was not being installed for me. Try `which X` on the command line or `ls /usr/bin/X11/X`. If X window system was installed during your initial install of woody, you should remember selecting your video driver (e.g. mga), resolution sizes, and other questions I don't remember.
2. I chose to enable/allow kernel FrameBuffers during one of the questions. Bad choice in my case.
You can reinstall Woody selecting to use dselect to manually select the X window system and choose no for kernel FBuffers or Probably simpler just correct your installation with the following.
If you've got networking or the install cd run `deselect` on your command line. You can set it up to use ftp or cdrom from option #0. Choose #2 Select packages, select the X window system accepting all dependencies that dselect will show you. I had networking so it didn't ask me to put any CD in the cdrom, from the installation I had chosen apt-get ftp locations in addition to my cdrom. The dselect program is not really user friendly but once you use it a few times you begin to understand it. Once you accept the selected software(X window system and dependencies) you should return to the main menu and select #3 Install and then #4 Configure. I only did this once so my memory is a little flaky.
Next to get rid of the Frame Buffer problem comment that line in the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Generic Video Card"
Driver "mga"
# Option "UseFBDev" "true"
EndSection
Hope this helps.
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