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Re: Installation report: FAILED on i386



Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com> wrote:
> 2 Serial ATA drives, 1 IDE drive, e1000 Ethernet card.
> 
> * It hangs on "loading module ide-detect" if RAID is disabled in the BIOS.
> * If RAID is enabled in the BIOS, it gets past that, but it never detects
> either Serial ATA drive.
> * DHCP configuration is slow and flaky but eventually works.
> * Proceeding with the other drive, debootstrap fails -- wget fails
> to download the Release file for sarge with a "Hostname not found" failure.
> This pretty much scotches any install attempt, no workaround.

Since you have a workaround for the hang, please get the system
installed so that you can test the kernel-image packages.  Once
you're there, please test 2.4.24-1-386 as well 2.4.18 to see if
either one works.
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