Bug#296695: CD net-install won't work on Dell Inspiron 5000

[Martin Stiaszny <stiaszny@MIT.EDU>]

> Did you install into the MBR or the partition?
> 
> (hd0,x) or (hd0) ?

Come again?  I was never even asked that question by the installer.  Do
you mean the bootable flag for the partition?  I tried with that both
set and unset, and it hung in the same place.

Just tried expert install; I see can you can choose GRUB or Lilo, except
I never made it that far - for some reason, the expert install cannot
start the PCMCIA card services, which is odd, because the automated
install does so just fine.

> The way to do it is to go to tty2 and kill the grub-install process.
> Maybe you can figure out what the problem is first, though.
> 
> Once grub-install gets killed, you will be taken to the main menu of
> the installer, from which you can then choose to use Lilo instead.

So I tried this instead.  Except when I kill it, it simply restarts and
proceeds to try to install GRUB all over again.

So who I be responding to?  296695-quiet@bugs.debian.org,
296695@bugs.debian.org, you, or all of the above?

thanks,
- martin