Bug#292277: Debian Installation Report (netinst cd image for sarge rc2)

[Mike Hoover <ixarka@gmail.com>]

Package: installation-reports

Debian-installer-version: 1/25/05 from
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/i386/rc2/sarge-i386-netinst.iso

uname -a: N/A
Date: 1/25/05
Method: Attempted netinst

Machine: HP Pavilion ze4315us
Processor: mobile AMD Athlon XP 1800+
Memory: 256mb
Root Device: IDE
Root Size/partition table: Install did not complete
Output of lspci and lspci -n: N/A

Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot worked:    [E ]
Configure network HW:   [ ]
Config network:         [ ]
Detect CD:              [ ]
Load installer modules: [ ]
Detect hard drives:     [ ]
Partition hard drives:  [ ]
Create file systems:    [ ]
Mount partitions:       [ ]
Install base system:    [ ]
Install boot loader:    [ ]
Reboot:                 [ ]

Comments/Problems:

The installer completely froze on the language chooser.  System did
not repond.  Needed to do a cold reboot.  This has been documented as
being a result of framebuffer problems, but using
boot: linux video=vga16:off 
and also trying
boot: linux debian-installer/framebuffer=false 
options had no effect (the language chooser still came up and froze). 
The intaller appears to be broken for this hardware.