It looks like my problems with the Dec 5 & 6 installer builds is due to the CD burner. The Dec 6 build (debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso 0faa173fe594afdb374944cfc6610743) doesn't exhibit the freezing behavior if I burn the CD from another machine so I need to do some investigation of that here.
Even with the new installer build I see the the original problems - the IO errors and cdrom-detect slowness/failures (and the Etch installer is still fine). Maybe it is just some odd combination of hardware issues with this machine. I _did_ get Lenny installed (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=498863#15) so it's not a total failure. I've now got 5 of my 6 machines on Debian and it's about time to start on the last one - an eeePC. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]