ops turns out that in both cases they where using a pre-release, namely, .disk/info contains Debian GNU/Linux testing "Sarge" - Official Snapshot i386 Binary-1 (20041121) :-> turn off red alarm a. On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 04:09:49PM +0100, debdev wrote: > hi everybody > > two friends of mine tried (separately) to install sarge using the > netinst cdrom, and failed a. -- Andrea Mennucc "Ukn ow,Ifina llyfixe dmysp acebar.ohwh atthef"