Why does it take the debian-7.3.0-i386-lxde-CD-1.iso installer so long to install inside a VirtualBox VM?

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi Geoff,

On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 10:44 PM, Geoff Shang <geoff at quitelikely.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 6 Jan 2014, Shlomi Fish wrote:
>
>  P.S: another thing that annoys me about Debian is the fact that apt-get -y
>> dist-upgrade still sometimes halts the installation process to ask me
>> questions and prompts. This is a big misfeature and I wonder if there's a
>> way to make apt-get completely non-interactive.
>>
>
> You could reconfigure the debconf package - see dpkg-reconfigure(8).


Thanks for the tip.


> However, there are some questions that you probably should see when
> upgrading, for example when a config file that ships in a package has been
> modified since installation and you need to decide whether to install the
> new config file or stick with the old one.  Having had to do this very
> thing today, sometime the answer was one and sometimes the answer was the
> other, and mostly it involved a bit of both (choosing one answer but adding
> some content from the other).  The ability to view a diff between the files
> is a big help in these situations.
>

Yes, I see now. I think all my Debian systems are either VMs or a secondary
partition, so it should not be too critical, and what rpm-based systems do
is keep .rpmnew and .rpmsave files for this.

Thanks again.

Regards,

— Shlomi Fish


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