Help: AMD k7

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Hello,   I had debian potato working with an pentium processor, but a combinatiuon of upgrading hardware and a 'helping friend' uninstalling most of the system convinced me to restart the install from scratch.   The new system: Athlon k7 pro gigabyte k7 series mobo ordinary ide drives and gfx card   Problem: On booting with the install CD, I get the regular messages until ncr53c406a: no available ports found. Then the system freezes, ctrl-alt-del doens't work.   I know that ncr is a scsi device, but I doubt very much that the problem lies here because I haven't had scsi devices, ever. This is just the point at which the boot process fails, and reliably so. Ive tried no-scsi boot options, but no luck.     If anyone has suggestions, they would be greatly appreciated.   Thanks!