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