Hi, A thank you for the help I got on this list, in particular from Chris Tillman. Thanks, Chris!
Installing Debian continued to fail at a certain point for me a few times, and I now understand why: either bad memory or a bad disk. The most obvious sign for this was a corruption of /var/lib/dpkg/available (it showed some interesting 'typos' after it was generated). I first suspected my swap disk, but that is on the same pysical drive as the other partitions. I noticed: suddenly /sbin/badblocks found on a ramdisk also gave a segmentation fault. Repeatedly, so that ramdisk file must have got corrupted too. I'm sorry -- I wanted to test the d-i installer, and promised to test miBoot, but due to these problems, it will not be of much use. Sorry! I'll probably am stubborn enough to test another (SCSI) disk, but if that fails too, no Debian server for me at home. :-( Regards and thanks again for all the help. Freek Dijkstra
