Debian Linux Installation problem

[A R Abid <aa2g+@andrew.cmu.edu>]

I have run into a strange problem while trying to install Debian Linux
1.1. I downloaded the boot, root and base image files (3.5"), rawrote
the image files to floppies and booted off the boot floppy. At the boot
prompt, I <enter>ed w/ the boot floppy still inside the floppy drive. I
inserted the root floppy disk after being prompted to do so. After
<enter>, my box just hung up. Here is what I can copy from the screen:

Ramdisk driver initialized: 16 ramdisks of 4096K size
ide: 430FX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57  [for some reason, VX is not]
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0x9000-0x9007             [being correctly identified]
    ide0 timing: (0xa207) sample_CLKs=3, recovery_CLKs=2
    master: fastDMA=off PreFetch=on IORDY=on fastPIO=on
    slave:  fastDMA=off PreFetch=off IORDY=off fastPIO=off
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0x9008-0x900f
    ide1 timing: (0x8000) sample_CLKs=5, recovery_CLKs=4
    master: fastDMA=off PreFetch=off IORDY=off fastPIO=off
    slave:  fastDMA=off PreFetch=off IORDY=off fastPIO=off
hda: WDC AC21200H, 1222MB w/ 128kB Cache, LBA, CHS=621/64/63, DMA
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7, 0x3f6 on irq14
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Started kswapd v1.4.2.2
FDC 0 is an 8272A
NCR53c406a: no available ports found
PPA: unable to initialise controller at 0x378, error 2
scsi: 0 hosts
scsi: detected total
lance.c: PCI bios is present, checking for devices...
Partition chec: 
    hda: hda1
VFS: Insert root floppy disk to be loaded into ramdisk and press Enter
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
stack segment: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010: [<?00169ea5>]
EFLAGS: 00010246
eax: 00000000 ebx: 0000005f ecx: 000000ef ecx: f000ef6f
esi: 00000009 edi: 00fe8020 ebp: f000ef6f esp: 00258738
ds: .........
Process swapper (pid: 1, process nr: 1, stackpage=00258000)
Stack: ......
       ......
       ......
Call Trace: [<0016aa05>]  ........
Code: 0f b6 5d 00 fb 10 0f 87 6a ff ff ff 0f b6 4d 01 d3 6c 24

[the machine just hung up at this point]

Configuration: AMD K5-90 on Triton VX board, Western Digital AC21200
1282MB IDE (one 200MB DOS partition), S3 Trio64 based video card, 16MB
RAM

I would really appreciate if someone could kindly help me out of this. Thanks.

A. R. ABID
aa2g@andrew.cmu.edu