Francesco Poli wrote: > I booted from CD (with the help of a Smart Boot Manager floppy), selecting > "linux26". > After the low memory warning, I chose the Italian keyboard keymap. > The CD detection went fine: debian-installer scanned the CD Debian archive. > The "Loading components of the Debian Installer" step went on from > 0 to 85 % (I think), then... > > 0. the screen blanked for a while > 1. the interface got repainted (again "Loading components of the > Debian Installer") > 2. the progress bar restarted from zero > 3. progress status said "unpacking base-installer" > 4. the progress bar reached 10 % > 5. goto 0. (in a seemingly endless loop)
Sounds like your machine is out of memory. -- see shy jo
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