I have the same problem in Debian Wheezy debian-installer. I was booting from PXE. As workaround: #Change the console Alt + -> #find out PID from udpkg ps |grep udpkg|cut -d\ -f1 #kill this kill $PID #find out PID from network-preseed ps |grep network-preseed #kill it kill $PID #Continue your Installation Alt + <-