I suspect the overtemperature protection alarm fired. Disabling it in the BIOS made no difference, but booting "install acpi=off" seems to help.
With best regards Hartmut Am Montag, 9. April 2007 16:23 schrieb Frans Pop: > On Thursday 05 April 2007 20:49, Hartmut Niemann wrote: > > I tried installing from the Debian Testing netinstall CD from > > 2007-03-07, and on a PII-400 with onboard ADAPTEC SCSI the system > > started > > beeping high-low-high-low (octave interval) seemingly forever. > > It starts about the moment the "starting the syslog" apperars. > > The beeping is almost certainly not caused by the installer or even by the > debian kernel. Most likely the BIOS is causing the beeping because of a > serious (hardware?) problem. > > No idea how to help further with this. Sorry. > You could try asking on the debian-user mailing list. > > Cheers, > FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]