On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 02:41:31PM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > 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; > - others attempt to install an i386 version on 64-bit hardware. > > In both cases, the installer crashes with no useful error message (in the > former case, it crashes just after installing grub, in the latter case, it > crashes straight away). I don't think an i386 version of anything can crash on 64-bit hardware for hardware reasons. Are you sure it's the actual reason?
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