Hi, recently I downloaded the Debian 3.1 r2 Sarge. I installed in my main computer in XP (with vmware) just to test if everything was working ok, and indeed, it worked ok. Today I was trying to install it in an older computer (only with Debian as main OS, not under Windows). Some years ago in that same computer I had Dual boot with Windows 98 and Debian 2.2 (I don't remember exactly the version, but was a 2.x version of Debian).
The computer has a Pentium 200 mmx processor, 64mb RAM and a 20GB HD.
When I boot from the cd, everything goes fine, I select language, country, lan options, and when the part of partitioning arrives, no matter what option I select, if manual or auto, it hangs up (or freezes) when It's writing the partitions. For example, it get freeze at "26%", "67%" or any other number, never finish.
Reading the Debian installation manual, I tried first to change in the bios the LBA, Normal and Large option for the HD. Nothing happened (I tried with the three options). Then I tried to put a small boot partition (for /boot) of 10mb (in the manual says between 5 and 10mb) and also a primary of 6gb, a swap of 200mb and another logical partition with the rest. But, it's the same, it still freezes in some part of the % in the partition creating. I remember that when I installed it some years ago with dual boot, I used LILO to boot. I also read in the Debian installation manual that in tty2 I can use other partition programs, but cfdisk is not working for me. I would like to use the one of the installation.
I just don't know what else to try
I hope you can give me me a hand
Thank you a lot in advance
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