> I tried to configure my network manually, but the installer failed when > I tried to do that. After accepting my input for nameservers, I would be > left with a blue screen and a white line at the bottom. It still > responded to the keyboard; Enters added more white lines at the bottom, > and Alt+F2 got me to the new console all right, but the installer itself > was frozen.
Can you reproduce thisĀ ? You can do it even on the installed machine as, at this step, the system does not yet need to write on the HD. It would be nice to know what *exactly* you entered to the netcfg questions. booting with "install debconf/priority=medium DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer" could help, here.... Then look into /var/log/syslog or, even better, send it to us..... (the usual way to do so is copying it somewhere after the problem occurred, then find a way to continue the install, install the openssh optional component and finally scp the copied file to another host on the network....or reach the partitoning step, mount a local partition and write down the file there....)