I had the same issue installing both ‘surge’ and ‘woody’ on a Compaq: Deskpro EN 256 meg RAM onboard VGA onboard Ethernet Intel 766mhz PIII chip Problem: During install the screen would flicker on and off in half second intervals. Resolution: Run install with the framebuffer parameter disabled. i.e. at the boot prompt
type “linux debian-installer/framebuffer:false” |