Mark Gill wrote: > I had exactly the same thing when trying to install under VMware - it > reached 84%, then sat at that stage for several hours despite there > being continual CD access. It wasn't possible to open a terminal to > check the logs as it had become almost totally unresponsive by that > stage. > > Given other comments on the forum, I upped the memory allocated to > the VM from 512MB to 1GB and tried again - this time the installation > flew through with no problems. Given how slow the original install > was before it reached the 84% point, I'm guessing that it was > probably swapping like crazy, so unfortunately it looks like the > installer is just too heavyweight for half a gig of RAM. How much do > you have in your lappy? >
We do *lots* of installs in VirtualBox with 512 MB (that's a standard configuration I test it in, actually), so it's interesting that VMware isn't working as well. What are the other settings for the virtual machine? Dave
