hi,
i am trying to install debian gnu/linux "etch" 4.0r1 on two older
machines and get the same reaction on both machines (and interestingly
also with debian-netinst 4.0r0-cd).
the problem: installation freezes when installing the base-system while
installing the kernel. i tried the expert installation but it did not
help, the possibility to chose a kernel is offered directly _after_ the
step where my installation freezes. i even cannot move the mouse.
is there a minimum of ram? the machines are rather small:
one celeron 1100 with 96k ram, the other is a 500 cpu with also 96k ram.
i tried boot parameters "acpi=no pam=yes" and different combinations of
this, nothing works.
i would love to find out what is going wrong. i did test-installs from
the same disk (netinst) within qemu and it worked flawless.
the striking thing is that this happens on two different machines.
are there any other information i shoud provide?
thanks for helping,
meik
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