> I made three floppy drives (boot, root, and net-drivers). It booted well, > read the root drive, asked for a driver diskette. I put the "net-drivers" > diskette and it went pretty well until it started configuring PCI (or > CardBus, I don't remember exactly) and stucked at 93% (as I remember). No > PCMCIA card was inserted in the machine.
Hmmm, hav eyou tried disabling PCMCIA support. IIRC this is described in the installation manual. Which installer version did you try. I assume this is probably the sarge installer... Could you try the development version "Etch beta1" which you will find from http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer ?