On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 11:44:47PM +0200, Harald Arnesen wrote:
> Steve Litt [2016-05-12 22:29]:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > The last several years, with Debian, Lubuntu, Void, and Devuan Alpha, I
> > installed from either a tiny ISO or a network install ISO. Yesterday
> > and today, while installing from the Devuan DVD ISO, I was reminded why
> > I always did this.
> >
> > I started this install last night, and it's still not finished. I've
> > installed Gentoo and Funtoo faster. The whole time, whenever the VM
> > hosted install wasn't waiting for input from me, it was taking over 90%
> > of one of my cores, and slowing my machine's progress.
> >
> > If this thing isn't finished within 2 hours, I'm going to wipe my VM
> > clean and start over with a network install. And I'm never going to
> > install from a full ISO again.
>
> Strange. I installed Devuan from the beta version in a virtual machine
> yeserday, less than one hour.

Same over here. I have installed several times from netinst in expert
mode under qemu (with kvm enabled) and it works smoothly. A complete
installation of a basic system requires less than one hour in quemu.

HND

KatolaZ

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