I wonder if you can help me.

I have a Debian Sarge DVD from a magazine and I tried to install it on my
Desktop PC. It got so far then I had a problem.

I booted my PC from the DVD and after a few seconds I was faced with a
prompt. At the prompt I pressed enter without typing anything.
The installation started, I selected my Location (UK) and keyboard layout
and then it started the installation and displayed a progress bar to tell
me how it was getting on.

However, when it got to 91% it froze and would not go any further.
At the time the following information was on the screen:-

Detecting hardware to find CD-ROM drives.
Progress bar was up to 91%
Loading module 'sd_mod' for 'SCSI disk support'

I assume that as the installer froze at this stage there is some problem
with one of the CD/DVD drives. I have a Sony DVD-ROM (DDU1612) and I have
an NEC DVD ND-2500A DVD writer. Both of these drives have worked fine in
other Linux distributions.

Does anyone know why the installer froze?

Has anyone else experienced this?

How can I get the installation to continue rather than freeze?

I hope you can help me.

I appreciate any help or information given.

Thanks!

On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 14:49:25 +0000, Neil Hindry wrote:

<<snip>>
> Does anyone know why the installer froze?

This is just a guess. Read the Eratta section about SATA drivers. I ended
up downloading one of the Testing install cds and using expert install to
not load all of the modules.

http://www.us.debian.org/releases/st...ian-installer/

> Has anyone else experienced this?

If it is a SATA problem, yes.

> How can I get the installation to continue rather than freeze?

It is on the web page above. I used a Testing cd to get Debian installed.
I run unstable though. The work around should work for Sarge though.

What motherboard/processor are you using? How long did you wait for it to
unfreeze?

When I had my SATA problem, it 'froze' for a minute or three? and
then reported back it couldn't locate the cd.

Steve