I had a set of DVD's and I had been using them to reinstall with whenever I pushed things a little far, but I recently got a mobo with an ethernet card those disks did not support. I tried both the mini.iso and the debian-jessie-DI-rc1-amd64-netinst.iso because they supposedly are updated to support that ethernet, but they both hang just after network setup.

Odd thing is they ACT as if the setup goes just fine.

Anyone seen this? Is there a workaround? Apparently this is in the kernel, so there's no handy downloadable deb file to just fix it.

It's the Qualcomm Atheros Killer E220x Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 13). Works fine on my remaining Sid partition, but I need my backup partition back. =)

Just FYI, the reason I was able to get this to work previously is I was using wifi (of all things???), but I no longer have that wifi usb. Had no idea they would come up with an ethernet card Debi would not support!

I think it needs some proprietary firmware to work. Have you tried any iso that contains it? E.g.

http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/un.../amd64/iso-cd/

Out of curiosity I went ahead and tried that, but I think it is not really necessary as more recent kernels theoretically already have that firmware.

In any event, it did the same thing.

I have downloaded the firmware tarball, and perusing the contents after extraction there are atheros drivers; but, they all seem to have to do with the wireless, whereas I am not using wireless.

It may or may not have to do with my using a gtx980 card. It's relatively new stuff for Debian to handle, and the issue seems to be that it kicks me to a blue screen that begins to take keyboard input as if it were a command line...!?!!?!?!? But with no command line functionality. Alt-f2 gets me to that limited command line as one might expect, but I don't really know where to go from there.

Really confusing.

You can install nvidia's drivers from the command line...

On the install thumb drive? I'm talking about freezing during the installation process here.

I did find the syslog file and was trying to figure out how to get it saved somewhere to send in to the bug report I made as one fellow requested, but even though it is on a USB stick the filesystem is read only. Nothing I have found yet lets me change that, and there's no mail command on the install image.

That's where things lie now, anyhow.