On Sunday 11 January 2009, John wrote: > This time I'm using the first 40r6 DVD image which I downloaded today. > > It's been spinning there for 1 hour 11 minutes, running 100% CPU. It's > read 5.1 Mbytes from disk (that would be the virtual DVD), written 0. > There's been a few K of network I/O, I assume that's the virtual > display.
If you really want Etch I'd suggest you try Etch-and-a-half installer [1] which has a more recent kernel (2.6.24). Otherwise trying Lenny is the best option. > I intend to download the current daily (daily? it's nearly a week old) > overnight, and time permitting with give that ago tomorrow. Huh? Daily images are all up-to-date AFAICT. DVD images are built weekly, not daily. But why don't you download a smaller image first to see if it works? You could even use the mini.iso for that (see "other images", netboot). Cheers, FJP [1] http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/debian-installer/etchnhalf
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