On Fri, 2018-10-26 at 14:41 +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been encouraging my students to install Debian on their personal
> machines, and we've found out that a lot of them get the wrong Debian
> installer:
>
> - some of them attempt to install an AMD64 version of Debian in
> a 32-bit-only virtual machine;
Why are they creating 32-bit virtual machines? Perhaps this is a bad
default in the VM manaager?
> - others attempt to install an i386 version on 64-bit hardware.
This should work, in general. It won't work on a 64-bit system that
only supports EFI boot - and the installer won't be able to report
that, unless it includes a dummy 64-bit EFI program just to do that.
[...]
> Could somebody please speak with the installer people so they make sure
> that the installation fails with a friendly user message in both of the
> cases outlined above?
We should not do in this in the second case, since it is supposed to
work. (But a warning might be reasonable.)
Ben.
--
Ben Hutchings
The obvious mathematical breakthrough [to break modern encryption]
would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.
- Bill Gates
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