On 5/27/26 4:28 PM, Charles Curley wrote:
On Wed, 27 May 2026 14:03:27 -0700
Paul Scott<[email protected]> wrote:
Thank you for your reply.
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.
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 downloaded debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso
from https://linuxconfig.org/install-debian-linux-from-usb-boot-memory-stick
$ sudo dd bs=4M if=/path/to/file.iso of=/dev/sdX status=progress oflag=sync
with if pointing to the iso file and of=/dev/sdb1
The USB stick was flashing as dd was executing.
I inserted the stick and restarted the Lenovo ThinkBook pressing F12
From the boot menu I chose USB Device.
That's where I get
grub>
I don't believe there is a Guide for testing yet.
https://www.debian.org/distrib/ gives a choice of:
ISO images for Debian testing
Right now I can't find the iso I listed above after clicking on the line
above but I did get it somehow.
In any case, I doubt
there are any great differences between testing and stable right now.
I have done this testing installation many times and actually I then
immediately upgrade to sid.
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.
I think I agree but I don't know why.
When I look at the stick with Thunar on this machine I see the label
"Debian testing amd64 n"
and many directories the first of which is boot.
Paul
