Help with Squeeze on Acer Aspire D250

[david wildgoose <david.wildgoose@gmail.com>]

Hey everyone,

I've created a USB installer stick and I am trying to install squeeze
on my Acer Aspire D250.

The system boots off the USB stick and brings me to the Installer boot
menu, but the internal speaker beeps and the system freezes.

Below is how I'm setting up the USB install stick:

Downloaded the following files
http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/main/installer-i386/20110106/images/hd-media/boot.img.gz
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/squeeze_di_rc2/i386/iso-cd/debian-squeeze-di-rc2-i386-netinst.iso

Extracted boot.img.gz using the following command: gzip -dc
boot.img.gz > /dev/disk1

Copied the iso image to the USB stick.

Any ideas why the installer is freezing?

-- 
David Wildgoose