First, congrats with the work on the new installer. It's a major improvement. Specifically, this one detected and works with my network card. I spent about 10 hours with the Woody installer setting io and irqs and never got that far.
Using the Jan 30 unstable installation (113mb netinstall cd), the basic install seemed to work up through the reboot. Then, when it reboots and starts asking for root password, user accounts, etc. (debconf is it?) the machine will run for maybe 1 minute and reboot. It doesn't matter if I step through the utility and get as far as I can (one time I got to where it was actually in the middle of an apt-get) or if I just let it sit there or if I boot into recovery mode. After a fixed amount of time the machine reboots no matter what you do. Needless to say, I can't collect much information from it. I did look at dmesg and didn't see any smoking gun. The reason I tried unstable is because the 'testing' version would get to "installing base system" and seemed to complete but then said "base installation failed" with nothing in the error logs except "/usr/bin/awk already exists" or something like that. Back to the unstable experience, the things I noticed during the installation that seemed strange to me: - It never prompted me for a kernel. It just picked one. Therefore I can't try picking a different one. It installed the kernel during the "install base system" step. Or have these been combined now? - It never prompted me for Ethernet setup. The way I'm installing it is over Ethernet card which is hooked up through a crossover cable to a Windows machine with connection sharing, then the Windows has a modem that it uses to connect to dialup. The connection seems to work fine (The Linux box can contact and download stuff). But it never prompted me for ip address,etc (you have to set it to static 192.168.0.2). Yet I DID have to set this up during a previous install attempt. That makes me suspect that it's still reading some old config information from a previous install attempt. I did delete and re-partition the hard drive, which I *thought* would remove all old data... Since then I've tried turning off the "pnp OS" and "ps/2 mouse support" setting in the BIOS to no effect. I'm just shooting in the dark now. So is this a kernel panic or what? Any suggestions on what to do? Suggestions welcome. Thanks. - Matt Computer hardware setup: Emachines 533id Celeron 533 192 MB memory Brand-new 120G WD Hard drive with several failed Debian instation attempt having previously occurred. Samsung DVD/CD player (came with it) HP CD-Writer plus (added) Floppy drive (came with) Linksys Network Everywhere NC100 NIC (added) uses tulip driver I think (added) Creative Modem Blaster 56K modem (added, replaced the Conexant that came with it). Uses Rockwell HCF 56k chipset deviceid=1005 Intel 82810 Graphics (included on-board) Cirrus Logic CS4614/22/24 SoundFusion audio (included on-board) USB (included on-board) Microsoft cordless mouse (added) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]