After using SuSE for a while, I have finally decided to take the plunge into the world of Debian. I am, however, experiencing one severe problem with installing the OS.

I own a HP Omnibook xe4500, onto which I have successfully installed SuSE 9.2. There is a problem with probing for USB devices on installing Linux onto my specific notebook, which normally causes the keyboard to freeze.

I managed to circumvent this problem by passing the debian-installer/probe/usb=false flag to the initial installation kernel. Subsequently, the system installs the base packages (I'm using the lightweight network distro) and boots for the first time. Unfortunately, when Grub loads the installed kernel for the first time, it gets to the point where I am required to choose packages to network install. And here the keyboard hangs, once again.

I have tried passing the nousb flag to the grub kernel command with no luck.

Any suggestions would be very warmly welcomed!