Re: etch installation fails on two machines
Hi there,
sorry to hear you are having troubles with your install. My first guess would be a corrupted cd. Try burning a new cd from a different cd burner if possible.
Good luck.
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:09:40 +0200
meik thomas <across.the.universe@arcor.de> wrote:
> hi,
>
> i am trying to install debian gnu/linux "etch" 4.0r1 on two older
> machines and get the same reaction on both machines (and interestingly
> also with debian-netinst 4.0r0-cd).
>
> the problem: installation freezes when installing the base-system while
> installing the kernel. i tried the expert installation but it did not
> help, the possibility to chose a kernel is offered directly _after_ the
> step where my installation freezes. i even cannot move the mouse.
> is there a minimum of ram? the machines are rather small:
> one celeron 1100 with 96k ram, the other is a 500 cpu with also 96k ram.
>
> i tried boot parameters "acpi=no pam=yes" and different combinations of
> this, nothing works.
>
> i would love to find out what is going wrong. i did test-installs from
> the same disk (netinst) within qemu and it worked flawless.
>
> the striking thing is that this happens on two different machines.
>
> are there any other information i shoud provide?
>
> thanks for helping,
>
> meik
>
>
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