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    2.24. The boot floppy starts but hangs at the ``Probing Devices...''
    screen. 

Here's another problem that led to the same symptom: I have a laptop
with dual IDE controllers, the second of which is for the
PCMCIA-attached CDROM.  The CDROM wasn't inserted when I tried to
install, and it hung.  Disabling the second IDE controller during
installation fixed the problem.  (Inserting the CDROM might have
fixed it as well; don't know for sure.)

			Matt Crawford


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