Debian 3.0 installation hangs

[Dennis Kibbe]

On Wednesday 13 November 2002 08:14 pm, you wrote:
> Although I lurk here a lot, this is my first post to the list. Hope y'all
> can help me out here.
>
> I'm installing Debian 3.0 Woody from a bootable CD, all was going great and
> I wondered why everyone always says Debian is so hard to install. I'm doing
> a clean install on a clean 40 GB disk. Partitioning and formatting went
> well, set time zone, added users, set passwords, configured LILO  to load
> from a 10MB partition at the beginning of the drive. Selected basic X and
> desktop packages but didn't use Deselect  (or whatever it's
> called)...THEN...I got to a screen for "Configuring Locales" and I can't
> get out of it. Doesn't matter if I select the US English locales, or if I
> leave it all blank, I can't hit "enter" or select "Ok" and move on. I get
> stuck at that screen no matter what. The only thing I know to do is
> Ctrl-Alt-Del.
<SNIP>
> If anybody has a suggestion, could you please word it for a clueless
> semi-newbie?
>
> TIA,
> Siri Amrit

The Debian install guide might be helpful.

http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-rescue-boot.en.html#s-boot-troubleshooting

"Error messages are redirected to the third virtual terminal (known as tty3). 
You can access this terminal by pressing Left Alt-F3 (hold the Alt key while 
pressing the F3 function key); get back to dbootstrap with Left Alt-F1."

Do you see any error messages that look helpful?

Dennis Kibbe