I'm attempting to install debian's linux distribution on my new computer and am having problems. I have a Toshiba Satellite 1905-S277 (laptop), Pentium 4, 1.60GHz, 265 MB, preinstalled with Windows XP. I have used Bootit NG to create a new partition on the hard drive by shrinking the original XP partition by half. I thought I was set to install, so I downloaded both the current stable and test versions from the linux web site (woody net-install version), but after a certain early point in the istallation the processes freezes for either version. Here are the last lines that I get before the freeze:
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Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV = 4, MAX_REAL = 8