netinst cd hangs

[Charles Blair <c-blair@uiuc.edu>]

   I recently got an HP desktop with a Celeron processor.  I
downloaded debian-40r3-i386-netinst.iso, burnt it to a cd with
Microsoft's "cdburn," and booted.

   The debian logo and some introductory messages were displayed, but
then things froze.  The last few lines were:

            ACPI: Interpreter enabled
            ACPI: using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
            ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000.00)
            ACPI: assume root bridge [\_SP_.PCI0] bus is 0

The machine did not respond to control-alt-del, esc, or control-C.
I was only able  to shut it off by turning off the power supply.