RE: Woody Installation Problems II

["Daniel Fabian" <mailinglists@fabiand.net>]

> Look up your laptop on http://linux-laptop.net (although they seem to be
> down at the moment )^8 ) to see if there's any known issues with it.  If
> there's not anything outstandingly difficult, try again, but choose a
> very minimal install at first - this'll give you a (hopefully)
> functional system that you can then add to, and at least see the error
> messages when it fails.  This is what I had to do with my laptop (an old
> Thinkad) because there are some problems with the sound card.  You ave
> to use a workaround, well documented, but I couldn't set it up until I
> had an installed system, but I couldn't install the system because it
> kept hanging . . . you get the picture.  The very minimal install
> approach worked for me, though.

[Update:]

Try 4: This time it's docbook that causes it to hang. With all the beeping
again. Is there anything these packets (cxref, esound-common and docbook)
have in common?

> Good luck,
> Steve

Daniel>