On a HP compaq nx9000 notebook, 512M ram, in text mode, using boot.iso (from CD) (2005-01-30 ?) the installer hangs during/after the: moving (1) to step networkdevicecheck moving (1) to step network

This is occurring with either the network is set to dhcp or static address in the installer. The terminal on Alt-F2 is still responsive: top -d 1 shows STATUS RSS PPID %CPU %MEM COMMAND R 844 476 0.9 0.1 top S 1972 334 0.0 11.3 anaconda

After ten+ minutes, there is no change.