Hey, I've searched the archives for this, but was unable to find anyone else who had this particular problem.
Info: I'm installing Debian 2.2r0 from CD-Rom. The CD-Roms are linuxcentral CD-Roms, but I bought them through ikarios.com. I realize that these CDs are a few releases behind, and that I should really be installing r3, but I'm installing Debian on my home computer, from which I don't have web access. My computer is an iMac Special Edition (early 2001) with 600Hz G3 processor and a 40GB hard drive. The Problem: When I get to this screen in the second half of the installation process: --------------------| Debian System Configuration |--------------------- | | | If you have an account on an ISP and you want tot use it to fetch | | packages to install on the system from the Internet, you may | | configure the PPP service now, and I will open the PPP connection | | to your ISP. | | | | Do you want to use a PPP connection to install the system? | | | | <YES> <NO> | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Not having internet access, I quite naturally choose <NO>, and think I'm about to answer the next exciting question that Debian will pose. No such luck, however. The system freezes completely. A white, unblinking cursor appears at the bottom left-hand side of the screen (just under the blue field). I can do nothing, except wait. Wait I do, and in a few minutes (between three and five, I'm not exactly sure) the system reboots. If I boot into Linux, I find myself at the beginning of the second part of the installation process (md5 passwords). Well, there it is. I would really like to get Linux installed soon. If this is a problem that is impossible to fix, I'm willing to buy another set of CDs, if someone can point to a source where I would be sure to get release 2 or 3. If there is a patch of some sort that will fix this problem, I can download it from another computer, and bring it home. Any advice that anyone can provide will be greatly appreciated. -jeff van campen
