Re: Debian 10.3

2020-08-15 Thread Richard Owlett
On 08/13/2020 05:21 PM, Charles Curley wrote: [ *SNIP* ] Because the installer will install from the CD-ROM image, and then upgrade as part of the installation. So installing from a 10.3 CD will always produce a 10.X where X is the latest. You could bypass that by doing an expert installation.

Re: Debian 10.3

2020-08-13 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 13 Aug 2020 15:33:25 -0600 Bob Price wrote: > I installed 10.3 when it first came out and really enjoyed it. I saw > 10.4 come out so I went to that and was highly disappointed. I did > not like the idea that the icons were hidden and some hard to get to. > So I waited until 10.5 came ou

Re: Debian 10.3

2020-08-13 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Thu, Aug 13, 2020, 4:57 PM Bob Price wrote: I did not > like the idea that the icons were hidden and some hard to get to. So I > waited until 10.5 came out and went to that with the same problems. I > hated it. The user interface that you choose to use with debian can be one of several.

Re: Debian 10.3 text installer; guided partitioning does not work; manual partitioning doesn't make USB bootable

2020-03-12 Thread Alan Tu
Thanks Andrei. The firmware image (thanks Debian team!) did in fact have my wi-fi driver, saving a step. There is still one issue, and one point of feedback. The issue is that despite not needing the second USB, the partitioner still complains that the free space is too small and I cannot use guid

Re: Debian 10.3 text installer; guided partitioning does not work; manual partitioning doesn't make USB bootable

2020-03-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 11 mar 20, 12:58:21, Alan Tu wrote: > > I have the second USB inserted into a different USB port. I need this > second USB to have my *.ucode firmware file on it, for my Intel wifi > chip. Therefore this second USB has a FAT32 partition at first. I would suggest you use an image that inclu

Re: Debian 10.3 text installer; guided partitioning does not work; manual partitioning doesn't make USB bootable

2020-03-11 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-03-11 12:58, Alan Tu wrote: Hi, I need some ideas for getting Debian 10.3 to install and boot. I prefer the "CD-1" Debian Installer image, available via [1] or [2]. I would wipe the target drive, install Debian, and then install the Wi-Fi drivers. David [1] https://cdimage.de