Re: hangup at start of installation!

1997-07-31 Thread Lindsay Allen
Phil, I know that you have tried different floppies, but this problem is almost always caused by a bad floppy. Try some from a different source. Find another Linux box and verify what is on the rescue floppy against the resc1440 file with md5sum. I use :- dd if=/dev/fd0 bs=8k | md5sum ; md5sum

hangup at start of installation!

1997-07-31 Thread Phil Schniter
help! i am installing debian 1.3.1 on a brand new pentium pro system and the install gets stuck at the first "please wait, the installation program is determining the current state of your hardware..." window (just after the color/BW query). i have tried multiple rescue floppys as well as