Newbie Install Problem

[anderson@wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)]

Oops. Annoyed with RedHat's drift toward M$ marketing philosophy,
which among other defects will terminate support for all
non-Enterprise versions on Dec 31, I'm migrating my six machines
to Debian from RH 7.2.

To get install experience, I'mm starting wiht my laptop, which
is an IBM Thinkpad, 933MHz i686, 256MB, 20GB HD, CD-ROM and
*no* floppy drive. This last may be the fly in the ointment.

I have a set of Debian 3.0rev1 (woody) CDs. Booting from CD2
(vanilla), things start out great. Finds the HD as hda and the
CD-ROM drive as hdc. The last three lines before the hang say

  Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44N
  floppy0: no floppy controllers found
  md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4 MAX_REAL=8

There it stops cold.

Naturally, I had copied the docs onto another machine first
so I could check 'em if problems arose. But, I don't find a
clue about what to do now.

I hope this is no great trick and someone will tell me how
to get at least to the *next* little problem.

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