reassign #304779 boot-floppies severity 304779 normal stop the boot-floppy kernel is not maintained by the debian kernel team. nobody would expect 2.4.18 to work on modern hardware. you'd better use the new d-i at: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ and if you still need a woody base than use debootstrap to chroot into a woody partition and use a kernel from kernel.org for your newer hardware. -- maks