Hi,
On 28/03/2025 18:42, Nicolas George 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
Before to do so, you want to make a backup of your data (basically your HOME
directory)
on an external support.
Note that if you just want to have a look on how Debian can work on your box,
you want to play with a Debian live-cd.
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,
Cheers,
Jerome
