Re: Booting/Installing Debian Hurd from DVD not possible

[Richard Braun]

On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 08:24:13PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Samuel Thibault, on Sat 19 Dec 2015 09:10:29 +0100, wrote:
> > Amos Jeffries, on Sat 19 Dec 2015 12:38:00 +1300, wrote:
> > > ... and no kidding about clock issues - 8 hrs to run the installer,
> > > another ~48 hrs to run a dist-upgrade to Sid afterwards. Thats 8x longer
> > > than regular Debian for the same.
> > 
> > EEEewww.
> > 
> > Just for the record, it takes me a bunch of minutes to install the
> > base system with kvm, I don't remember how much exactly, perhaps 15m,
> > certainly less than an hour.
> 
> Confirmed to be 12m, from booting the CD to getting an installed system
> prompt.

Keep in mind QEMU provides writeback caching by default now.

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Richard Braun