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Hi everyone, I'm having a little trouble installing Debian Sarge netinst on my computer. Its an older computer I built with a p4 3.00ghz. I've installed Debian before many times ...
  1. 09-14-2009 #1
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    debian installation error

    Hi everyone, I'm having a little trouble installing Debian Sarge netinst on my computer. Its an older computer I built with a p4 3.00ghz. I've installed Debian before many times and have never seen this before, but what happens is that while installing ext3, the installation reliably stops at 33% and doesn't continue after hours of waiting. Any ideas what could be causing this?
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    You're doing a netinstall, so my guess is that it can't find any packages since Sarge reached end of life over a year ago.

    They archive the old stuff at http://archive.debian.org, so you can probably point the installer to that server.

    But why the heck are you using Sarge instead of Lenny???
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    Yeah I agree, dump the idea of sarge and go with Debian 5.0 lenny those specs are no problem at all for it. I'm running it on a p4 2.1ghz with out a hitch.
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    Hello,
    I faced yesterday with the similar problem. During the network installation process I chose a mirror and the installation stoped at 5% and doesn't continue after hour of waiting. How can I check installation process? ps command or log files?
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  5. 09-15-2009 #5
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    Quote Originally Posted by ursusca View Post
    Hello,
    I faced yesterday with the similar problem. During the network installation process I chose a mirror and the installation stoped at 5% and doesn't continue after hour of waiting. How can I check installation process? ps command or log files?
    I downloaded new iso image and installed Debian from it.
    ctrl +alt +f1 opens alternate consoles.
    alt+f4 shows installation process the same like tail -f /var/log/syslog.
    alt + f5 returning back to gui mode.
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