On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 02:06:38AM -0600, Bob McElrath wrote: > I have tried to install debian woody from both floppy (2.4bf), and CD-ROM > (netinst images: http://people.debian.org/~ieure/netinst/) and for two > different machines the install hangs at a random point in the install. I have > repeated this probably 20 times. The install does not finish, but crashes when > installing packages (and never at the same point). > > By "crash" I mean the system is unresponsive to interrupts (can't ping, > keyboard lights don't flash when you hit numlock). i.e. it looks like a hard > kernel crash. > > One of the machines is an AMD K5-133, 24MB RAM, Diamond Stealth 64 video (VLB), > aha1522 (ISA), ne2000 (isa), ide (unknown - ISA). I have the root on a 100MB > IDE drive, and /usr on a 4GB SCSI drive. I was attempting a network install in > all cases. > > The other machine is an AMD Athlon 1.4 GHz (via KT266 chipset), ATI Radeon > video, IDE drives, via-rhine ethernet, also attempting a network install. > > Is this known? I checked the bugs page but didn't see anything relevant.
There was some segfaulting reported recently, but that just causes the installer to respawn. Can you boot with ' debug' added to your boot arguments, then watch console 3 or 4? A bug is certainly warranted. -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual> | | debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | May the Source be with you | *----------------------------------------------------------------* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
