Re: Debian Hurd installer fixed since 2014?
Jonathan de Boyne Pollard, on Thu 01 Sep 2016 09:23:07 +0100, wrote:
> The Debian installer dutifully hung partway through the install,
> saying that it was configuring exim.
How much memory did the box have? We do know there are still some
issues with swapping. Installation does push a lot of data into memory
then disk, so better have enough memory to avoid swapping. I regularly
run the installer inside kvm and 1G RAM without any issue.
> The last that I checked, which was a while ago, to work around this and
> possibly other critical Debian installer problems you yourselves were
> "installing" Debian Hurd by sharing around a developer's personal machine
> image with that developer's accounts and stuff already pre-installed. Has
> this situation improved at all?
Memory management is being worked on and there have been various fixes,
yes.
Samuel
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