Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It sounds like a kernel issue, with borken hardware. You may try to > disable framebuffer, see boot screens. Background: when the first > screen appears and fb is enabled, the installer looks for > translation catalogs on CDROM drives. Maybe some of your CD drives > is broken, or the kernel freezes because of broken IDE driver or > chipset, or whatever. As said, it's a DELL, you can never be sure > when such things appear there.
For what it's worth (for the archives, or if anyone's interested) it turned out to be a problem with the CD drive, because unplugging it solved the problem. Not only that, even after the system was installed I couldn't have the CD drive in and run a 2.4 kernel (it would hang, right after showing the login prompt). A 2.2 kernel seems to work just fine, though. -- Jeremy Hankins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint: 748F 4D16 538E 75D6 8333 9E10 D212 B5ED 37D0 0A03 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
