On 6/22/24 04:43, Richard Owlett wrote:
Thank you for reminding me of live images just now. Perfect timing.
I have an i386 machine with some atypical constraints.
https://www.debian.org/CD/live/ states only amd64 images are currently
available.
Questions:
1. What is latest i386 live image available in some archive?
2. I have a working machine that will take a current full install
of an i386 system. Can an average user create his own i386 live
install image?
Rather than creating a customized Debian Live image, I install Debian
onto a USB flash drive or onto a 2.5" SATA SSD connected via a USB-SATA
adapter cable:
https://www.startech.com/en-us/hdd/usb3s2sat3cb
Installing Debian onto a USB device allows me to choose the tasks I want
at install time and then to add, remove, update, upgrade, etc., the
packages I want later. I load the USB Debian instances with all of my
favorite Unix/ Linux/ Debian trouble-shooting tools, plus my own scripts.
My Debian 11 amd64 BIOS/MBR USB instance works on all of my amd64
BIOS/MBR computers and works on most of my EUFI/GPT computers when set
to BIOS/MBR mode.
My Debian 11 am64 UEFI/GPT USB instance was created on a Windows 10 era
machine with UEFI/GPT and only works on similar machines with similar
settings.
David
