Jeremy <mcotis@yahoo.com> writes:
acutally i figured it out :-) I had SCSI voodoo. Amazing how those little jumpers make a difference... The installer worked and booted. But I still think "woody" has bugs in it. The installer just loops when after I finish setting up the password info; it should ask about PPP, but never does. I do rememeber seeing kernel errors on booting (live not floppy) about PPP/serial modules missing. So i am trying different various of modules during the install. I may have to go to the stable which i think is potato.
Damn, I picked a bad time to suggest trying woody. This problem is fixed in sid, and can be fixed by moving /etc/inittab.real to /etc/inittab. See: <URL:http://bugs.debian.org/145434> <URL:http://bugs.debian.org/145469>
We'll see :-)
Yeah, you could install potato and dist-upgrade to woody as an alternative, but apart from that little annoying loop bug, woody would be a better choice. The 1.33.18 package is in sid, and hopefully will move into woody by tomorrow. here are the versions for each release: base-config | 0.33.2 | stable | source, alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc, sparc base-config | 1.33.17 | testing | source, all base-config | 1.33.18 | unstable | source, all ttyl, -- Josh Huber