Other d-i ppl, look further please. > - NIC is a NE2000 clone sitting on ISA. It was not auto detected. > Loading 'ne io=0x300-0x31f irq=5' by hand solved the problem.
This is a known "problem" without real good solution except than doing what you actually did : load the module with options in expert mode. This is documented in the install manual, IIRC. > > - BIOS is seriously buggy and will hang upon detecting HDD with a > capacity>33GB during boot. The HDD was jumpered to lie about its > real capacity (80GB) to the BIOS. Boot process continued fine, but > Debian Installer INSISTED on using the fake HDD capacity instead of > detecting the real one. > > - Partitioning of a HDD with incorrectly detected capacity was useless. That is an important problem. I'm not sure which package we have to assign it to? Other team members? Assign to ddetect?
