On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 1:43 PM Nicolas George <geo...@nsup.org> wrote:
> Ife Wright (HE12025-03-28): > > I want to install debian but I don't understand why I have to erase > > everything on my hard disk to do it,I just want to install without > erasing > > my hard disk > I take it you have Windows and you are trying to keep it. Debian requires three partitions, Swap, / "Root" and /boot/efi. You do not need to completely erase the disk. The C: windows partition can be resized. Debian will not automatically scan for installed OS's. If you want to dual-boot with Windows it takes some manual commands. What size harddisk do you have? Have you ever installed an Operating System before? What version of Windows do you have? If you are just wanting to try out Debian you can install it on a virtual machine using virtualbox, https://www.oracle.com/virtualization/virtualbox/, on Windows. Tim > > You do not need to erase anything, the installation process will > overwrite whatever it needs. That includes the root data structures of > most anything that could already been there, so the rest, the data that > will not have been overwritten, will be mostly unusable without a lot of > effort. > > Regards, > > -- > Nicolas George > > -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org/ ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀
