Hi there, sorry to hear you are having troubles with your install. My first guess would be a corrupted cd. Try burning a new cd from a different cd burner if possible.
Good luck. On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:09:40 +0200 meik thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > > i am trying to install debian gnu/linux "etch" 4.0r1 on two older > machines and get the same reaction on both machines (and interestingly > also with debian-netinst 4.0r0-cd). > > the problem: installation freezes when installing the base-system while > installing the kernel. i tried the expert installation but it did not > help, the possibility to chose a kernel is offered directly _after_ the > step where my installation freezes. i even cannot move the mouse. > is there a minimum of ram? the machines are rather small: > one celeron 1100 with 96k ram, the other is a 500 cpu with also 96k ram. > > i tried boot parameters "acpi=no pam=yes" and different combinations of > this, nothing works. > > i would love to find out what is going wrong. i did test-installs from > the same disk (netinst) within qemu and it worked flawless. > > the striking thing is that this happens on two different machines. > > are there any other information i shoud provide? > > thanks for helping, > > meik > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Amit Uttamchandani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
