Package: base-installer Severity: normal If you don't set noapic with that motherboard, then the installer fails to load the IDE driver. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.29.gplhost050325 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)