Re: Why does it take the debian-7.3.0-i386-lxde-CD-1.iso installer so long to install inside a VirtualBox VM?

2014-01-09 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
re:all +additions 2014/1/7 Shlomi Fish shlo...@gmail.com: Hi Geoff, On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 10:44 PM, Geoff Shang ge...@quitelikely.com wrote: On Mon, 6 Jan 2014, Shlomi Fish wrote: P.S: another thing that annoys me about Debian is the fact that apt-get -y dist-upgrade still sometimes

Re: Why does it take the debian-7.3.0-i386-lxde-CD-1.iso installer so long to install inside a VirtualBox VM?

2014-01-09 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
E.S. Rosenberg esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il writes: Debian does that too, that still doesn't change the fact that the system needs to know which version of config to use, you don't want apache, squid or any other program to revert to vanilla state after you worked hard on configuring it (even if

Re: Why does it take the debian-7.3.0-i386-lxde-CD-1.iso installer so long to install inside a VirtualBox VM?

2014-01-07 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Tzafrir, On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 10:41 PM, Tzafrir Cohen tzaf...@cohens.org.ilwrote: On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 10:26:45PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: P.S: another thing that annoys me about Debian is the fact that apt-get -y dist-upgrade still sometimes halts the installation process to ask

Re: Why does it take the debian-7.3.0-i386-lxde-CD-1.iso installer so long to install inside a VirtualBox VM?

2014-01-07 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Geoff, On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 10:44 PM, Geoff Shang ge...@quitelikely.com wrote: On Mon, 6 Jan 2014, Shlomi Fish wrote: P.S: another thing that annoys me about Debian is the fact that apt-get -y dist-upgrade still sometimes halts the installation process to ask me questions and prompts.

Why does it take the debian-7.3.0-i386-lxde-CD-1.iso installer so long to install inside a VirtualBox VM?

2014-01-06 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all, I installed Debian 7.x.0 from the LXDE CD (debian-7.3.0-i386-lxde-CD-1.iso ) into a VirtualBox VM (both i586 and x86-64) several times in the past, and was always frustrated at how long the installation process is. I specifically ask it not to contact a remote mirror, but the installation

Re: Why does it take the debian-7.3.0-i386-lxde-CD-1.iso installer so long to install inside a VirtualBox VM?

2014-01-06 Thread Geoff Shang
On Mon, 6 Jan 2014, Shlomi Fish wrote: P.S: another thing that annoys me about Debian is the fact that apt-get -y dist-upgrade still sometimes halts the installation process to ask me questions and prompts. This is a big misfeature and I wonder if there's a way to make apt-get completely

Re: Why does it take the debian-7.3.0-i386-lxde-CD-1.iso installer so long to install inside a VirtualBox VM?

2014-01-06 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 10:26:45PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: P.S: another thing that annoys me about Debian is the fact that apt-get -y dist-upgrade still sometimes halts the installation process to ask me questions and prompts. This is a big misfeature and I wonder if there's a way to make