Tales From The Geek Side

The geeky musings of Greg Rowe.

Virtual Box Fails to Install Debian

September 4th, 2009 by greg

I recently attempted to install Debian 5 using the latest net install iso image using Virtual Box (the commercial/non-open source version). The installs kept failing. I finally tracked it down to not having enough RAM available. 256MB was not enough but bumping the virtual machine setting to 512MB did the trick.

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