First, I want to say, “thank you,” to all the people that posted here. I had the same issue as most people posting on this thread. The Debian installer hung during “select and install software”. I was using “Debian-9.2.1-amd64-netinst.iso” on the Advantech
single board computer, ARK1123. This SBC uses the same J1900 processor that other people reference in this thread. I was able to get around it by some changes to my BIOS, similar to what other people have posted. In my BIOS, I went to Advanced->Misc Configuration->OS
Selection. My 3 options were Windows 7, Windows 8, and Android. I changed the OS Selection from Windows 7 to Android. I also disabled all the settings available in Advanced->ACPI menu. Then it worked.
Brent