I made a bigger virtual drive and it worked. However, the installer should at least say there is no disk space free for the selections.
On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 09:25:37AM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: > Control: tag -1 moreinfo > stop > > Hello Ant, > > > On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 03:05:18PM -0800, Ant wrote: > > virtual machine (VM) with 8 GB of disk space (using its > > default /var, swap, and /home setup). The installers (text and GUI) > > failed quickly after selecting packages to install. > > > } people said that users should know this in advance. > > It is called system requirements. > > > > To me, this is a bad user experience (UX) > > and not friendly to newbies to use Debian. :( > > Rerun your install (VM with 8GB disk) and select single partition > and report back. > > That is because I think that '/var' and '/home' partitions > claim disk space needed for packages. > (And I think single partition is the default.) > > > Groeten > Geert Stappers > -- > Leven en laten leven