Debian hangs during install

[John McLaren <jmclaren@oise.utoronto.ca>]

Help Needed!

After looking around for a 486 to dedicate to linux, a 5-year-old
"ex-bleeding-edge" server became available cheaply, containing an
EISA mb and Ultrastor 22CA EISA ESDI cacheing controller running
two Micropolis drives--seemed like a good buy at the time
(performs flawlessly on dos/windows).

I turned off cacheing and shadowing and started to load the latest
Debian boot/root disks.  All seemed to go as per the book--hard
drive/controller identified ok etc--until it found 1 scsi host,
identified as an Ultrastor 24F.  Not surprisingly, it could get no
response, eventually tried to reset it, and hung at:
   "US14F: reset: called"

Is there some simple command or parameter to give at the "boot:"
prompt which will stop the program looking for scsi hardware?  All
I could find in help files were suggestions for what to do if your
installed scsi card wasn't found--not the other way 'round!

Thanks

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John A. McLaren, VA3JM             jmclaren@oise.utoronto.ca

"If the human brain were simple enough for us to understand,
 we would be too simple to understand it"
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