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Re: Installing 32 bit Debian 8.1 on a virtual machine (via virtualbox)



On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 06:06:40PM +1000, Brenton Horne wrote:
> I have been trying to install Debian 8.1 on my virtual machine, from the
> netinstall CD ISO. The machine has 64 GB HDD allocated to it and 1 GB RAM.
> It also has 3D video acceleration enabled. Its video memory is 64 MB. The
> one named debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso.

If you take a current ISO having "testing" in its name, you are not
installing Debian 8.1, you are installing Debian stretch, current
testing, which will become Debian 9 in a couple of years.

So, I would recommend that you use Debian stable for your experiments.


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