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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