Debian sarge installer kernel panic

["Chris Kolanovic" <ckolanovic@earthlink.net>]

When I try to install debian sarge on a pentium II 266 with 384 megs of
ram I get the following kernel panic message.  I thought that some of
the pci / isa cards might be a problem so I took all of them out except
for the graphics card, but I still get the same error.  I can't even
boot the installer!!  Maybe someone is familiar with this problem and
can help me out.

Thanks

Memory: 383776k/393216k available (1065k kernel code, 9052k reserved,
475k data, 96k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288)
Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144)
Unable to handle kernel pagin request at virtual address 8f7cd667
printing eip:
c0129789
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<c0129789>] Not tainted
EFLAGS: 00010283
eax: ffffffff ebx: c14270c0 ecx: d7fd5fd8 edx: 8f7cd67b
esi: 8f7cd667 edi: c0219bb8 ebp: c02a5358 esp: c027ffa0
ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Process swapper (pid: 0, stackpage=c027f000)
Stack: 00000000 00000140 00000006 00008000 c0105000 0002e000 c028ae2e
c0219bb8
       000001d0 00000010 00002000 c0141d48 00000000 00018000 00039800
c028ad4a
       00018000	00018000 00000000 c0280665 00018000 00018000 c029aa60
c0100191
call Tace: [<c0105000>] [<c0141d48>]

Code: ac ac 75 08 84 c0 75 f8 31 c0 eb 04 19 c0 0c 01 c075 08
<0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!
In idle task - no syncing