Re: Installer: 32 vs. 64 bit

2018-11-08 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
>> 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; > Why are they creating 32-bit vi

Re: Installer: 32 vs. 64 bit

2018-10-27 Thread peter green
Why are they creating 32-bit virtual machines? At least with virtualbox 32-bit VMs can run on any host. 64-bit VMs require VT-x which is all too often disabled in the BIOS.

Re: Installer: 32 vs. 64 bit

2018-10-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2018-10-26 at 14:41 +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > Hi, > > 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 >