On Wed, May 27, 2026 at 7:29 PM Charles Curley < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 27 May 2026 14:03:27 -0700 > Paul Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I followed some recent online instructions to put what I thought was > > an iso of testing on a stick and inserted the stick into the new > > laptop. > Are you writing the drive with dd from GNU/Linux or are you using a GUI program on a non-Linux machine. If you are writing the drive with Linux try: Use lsblk to locate your thumb drive. Replace /dev/sXX with your drive for example /dev/sdb. sudo dd if=./debian-live-13.5.0-amd64-kde.iso of=/dev/sXX bs=4M status=progress && sync I always use the KDE Live install image. I recommend it over the Net Install image. If you have limited bandwidth or have a intermittent connection then the Net Installer can have problems. You can download the KDE Live image from: https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/debian-live-13.5.0-amd64-kde.iso > You didn't specify which instructions you followed. I suggest you start > with the Debian Installation Guide. I will guess that you want AMD64. > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual > > I don't believe there is a Guide for testing yet. In any case, I doubt > there are any great differences between testing and stable right now. > > > > > The laptop has Windows 11 with room on the SSD drive for Debian. > > See 6.3.7.1. Detecting other operating systems in the Guide. > > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch06s03.en.html#di-make-bootable > > > > > When I restart and select USB I get a grub prompt. I haven't figured > > a command to do the install from there. > > I don't know what that USB stick has on it, but it isn't the Debian > netinst DVD image. > > -- > Does anybody read signatures any more? > > https://charlescurley.com > https://charlescurley.com/blog/ > > -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org/ ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀
