I haven't seen that particular kernel fault happen before during a Debian installation. I suggest that you first re-download and re-write the "boot" and "root" floppies (the 3 base floppies are checksum-protected and will tell you if they have a problem). Incorrectly-written floppies seem to be a big problem. We also had a user who downloaded the floppies using "lynx" instead of FTP and they came out the wrong size.
Also, is there any questionable memory in your system? I'm just attempting to "shotgun" the problem here. If the problem persists, look in ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/debian-0.93/disks/alt for the 1.3.30 boot disk (I assume you are using the 1.2.13 boot disk). A different kernel might not exercise this problem. Thanks Bruce
