On 05/29/11 at 11:00am, Ethan Rosenberg wrote:
> At 09:25 AM 5/28/2011, Rob Owens wrote:
> >On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:45:09AM -0400, Ethan Rosenberg wrote:
> >> Dear list -
> >>
> >> It went nowhere w/ the full iso of squeeze [see my previous post
> >> "Difficulties installing squeeze"], so I moved on the netinst. The
> >> CD runs perfectly until it gets to "Select and Install Software", at
> >> which point it hangs. As far as I can tell, the CD is fine. It was
> >> burned at a low speed, the MD5 sum of the file and the download
> >> matched and the CD was verified after burning. I have tried
> >> changing the mirrors, to no avail.
>
> Can you ctl-alt-f1 or ctl-alt-f2 to see the output or open a
> terminal for troubleshooting? >>> Yes, but it is just scrolling and
> I cannot read it.
F1 should bring you to the output of the installer. A shame you
cannot read it to see what is happening.
Try heading over to f2 where you can open a terminal for
troubleshooting. Test your network from there. Try to ps and see
what is going on.
--
Liam