Debian 3.1(Sarge) will not install...?
I have bought two different Linux magazine's with Debian 3.1 on either a CD-ROM (3) "or" DVD-ROM format. I have tried installing either disk on two different machines...and it still stalls on both (after one hour+ it was still "Scanning") -see errors below please. My first quess is hardware incompatibility.I wont even ask about one of the computers because its slow and old and I didnt think it would install on it anyway.
But my fastest machine (2.4 GHZ AthlonXP) I thought would surely be the best possible machine to run Debian on. The Athlon has an older video card (Matrox Millenium) w/8MB of VRAM but it is powerful enough to run XP Pro, so I dont think thats the problem. Here is what I have and then I'll list the errors I'm getting:
AthlonXP 2.4GHZ
512 RAM
80GB HD
Sound Blaster 32
Matrox Millenium Video Card
DVD-ROM
DVD/CDRW
Errors/Halts:
After waiting for well over an hour:
Step: 30+mins
"Detecting hardware to find CD-ROM Drive
84%
Loading module 'ide-disk' for 'Linux ATA Disk'... "
it finally advances to the next step
Step: 35+mins (quit setup at this point)
"Scanning CD-ROM
30%
Scanning /cdrom/pool/main/a... "
Sorry this is so long, I hope it wasnt to hard to follow...anyone have
any ideas as to why the install is not loading ...using either CD's (3 of them) OR one DVD...???
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