[LUNI] Installing Debian on brand new dell dimension 9200

[Jeff D]

On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Jay Strauss wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm having some difficulties installing on my new Dell.  I'm not in
> front of the box, so I'm going off of memory.  I'm trying to install
> Debian 4.0 r1 on my new Dell (below is the component print out from
> windows before I destroyed the XP installation).
>
> I've tried 2 installs
>
> install 1 - I tried to build a small raid-1 /boot and the rest be a
> raid-1 LVM.  Everything was going well until it died installing
> openssh, I got the cancel/ignore dialog.  I ignored and it dropped me
> back into the install tasks list.
>
> install 2 - I thought maybe I had a problem with raid, so I just did
> the guided partitioning, "LVM with multiple filesystems", this time it
> ran only until it was downloading software that wasn't on the CD.
> Then it hung.
>
> My initial thought (obviously) was it was related to the raid but the
> 2nd install bombed too.  The box is pretty basic, onboard sound and
> video cards, and SATA.
>
> FYI, I went into the raid controller bios admin screen and removed the
> factory configured raid, and just said make it two normal drives.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks
> Jay

Does this happen after you select what type of install to do?  Like where 
it asks you if you want to do a desktop/webserver portion?  I had one 
install that would always freeze at that point of the install. I finally 
just selected none and it finished the install and I just got all the 
packages I needed..

hth
jeff

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