On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 03:24, Chris Tillman wrote: > 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. > > 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.
For a "hard" crash like this, the bug should be against the appropriate kernel-image package. I doubt that there is anything the boot-floppies themselves can do about the problem. p. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
