On Mon, 04 Apr 2022 15:20:01 +0200, Tixy <t...@yxit.co.uk> wrote: >On Mon, 2022-04-04 at 08:21 -0400, Noah Sombrero wrote: >[...] >> Iso written to usb stick. debian-11.3.0-i386-netinst.iso > >This is not related to your password problem, but did you meant to >install a 32-bit OS?
Yes this is an ancient toshiba satellite laptop with pentium 4 processor. For 64-bit you would want the 'amd64' flavour of >the installer not 'i386'. (Note, the 'amd' in amd64 is a historical >artefact as AMD first produced chips with a 64-bit 'x86' ISA and Intel >later also used it). -- Noah Sombrero