[Bug 48305] Clean Dapper installation hangs on 'preconfiguring networking...'

[Sam]

Public bug reported:

The machine is a Philips Freevents x52 laptop (unusual manufacturer),
and the installation needs to be run in 'safe graphics mode' to get it
past the configuration of X.

It then fails on 'preconfiguring networking...'

Adding the various options below did not help: 
netcfg/disable_dhcp=true 
hw-detect/start_pcmcia=false 
DEBCONF_DEBUT=5 
BOOT_DEBUG=3
noapic nolapic

At one point, I succeeded in passing the preparing networking statement,
only for the install to hang a few lines further on with hardware
initialisation...

I was unable to coax any further debug information out of the installer,
even running in text mode.

** Affects: linux-source-2.6.15 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Medium
         Status: Unconfirmed

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Clean Dapper installation hangs on 'preconfiguring networking...'
https://launchpad.net/bugs/48305