Now I got a second install (on a notebook): harddisk from knoppix; just up to Testing. Also pretty stable.
Rant: Woody didn't install on that notebook (see here & bugreports), but there is no install apart from Woody (I know, the testing, but it also failed on that notebook - reported as well). This rant is not on these failures, but the lack of available, intermediate installers. End of Rant.
Woody was released about 18 months ago. Given the lag in free software catching up to support newer hardware (usually 12 to 18 months to make into "stable software," because of no manufacturer support), Anything made more than 12 to 18 months *before* Woody was released may run into problems.
I have a Toshiba laptop (from December 2001, about 7 months befor. the release of Woody) on which I installed Woody in Decewber 2002. Many things worked and many did not. Most notably, the S3 graphics required the Xserver from testing.
Naturally you do have alternativse (even moreso than before). You can use the sarge intsaller, use Knoppix to do a chroot install, or just switch to a more "current" distro, like Fedora, SUSE, or one of the Debian derivatives.
-Roberto
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