I just tried 2.3.1 from http://people.debian.org/~aph/debian/dists/woody/, and it has the same problem. The only added info is that the log on tty3 is now spewing line after line of the form May 12 04:09:59 (none) user.info init: Process '/sbin/dbootstrap (pid 293) exited. Scheduling it for restart Guess I'm back to the potato version and the net-install wierdness it has.