Woody install infinite loop

[Neal Lippman <nl@lippman.org>]

I haven't been able to find anything posted on this; wondered if anyone has 
heard about this.

I am attempting a woody install, having d/l'd the disk images over the 
weekend. This is going onto a new system; because it may be relevant, here 
are the specs that I think are needed:
	MSI K7T-266A Pro2A MB with Athlon XP1700+; 512MB ram
	GeForce2MX video card

The install proceeds as expected until I get to the point of specifying the 
system time. The HW clock is NOT set to GMT, so I select NO for that option. 
I give my locality as US; Eastern. I then create a root account/password and 
a user account for myself. After I do that, the install loops back to ask me 
again if the HW clock is set to GMT. From that point on, nothing I do breaks 
this loop, and all of the above steps just keep on cycling. I have tried the 
install twice, restarting from the very beginning and reformatting all drive 
partitions to ensure there isn't any residual data from a prior install that 
could mess things up; same result each time.

Interestingly, the FIRST time that the question is asked about the HW clock 
and GMT, the correct time is displayed, but each time thereafter the 
displayed time is off by two hours. I verified on reboot that the BIOS 
retains the correct time.

Any thoughts? Is this a known bug that I just cannot find? I thought about 
not creating a user account until later, but didn't see how that would be the 
problem...but I could try it if no one has any better ideas.

Thanks.
Neal Lippman


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