Re: laptop installs

2024-08-30 Thread Anssi Saari
"Roy J. Tellason, Sr." writes: > I don't think that I'd end up with the proper drivers if I did that... Linux distributions usually ship with almost all drivers, some specific ones might need an extra step to install. But I've never had a driver issue with Debian when changing hardware of an ins

Re: laptop installs

2024-08-29 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Op 28-08-2024 om 03:30 schreef Roy J. Tellason, Sr.: In the case of two of the three laptops I have here to play with, it's simply a matter of telling it to boot off the DVD drive and then inserting the appropriate disc and going on from there. In the case of this other one, things get a li

Re: laptop installs

2024-08-28 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Tuesday 27 August 2024 10:01:07 pm Andy Smith wrote: > That is the correct way to deal with Debian's ISO images. Whether > your BIOS supports booting from that is a bit hit and miss. It's > worth a try as it works a lot of the time. > > Also look in the BIOS settings for boot order priority. If

Booting from USBs on old laptops, was Re: laptop installs

2024-08-27 Thread David Wright
On Tue 27 Aug 2024 at 21:42:22 (-0400), Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > In the case of two of the three laptops I have here to play with, it's > simply a matter of telling it to boot off the DVD drive and then inserting > the appropriate disc and going on from there. In the case of this other one

Re: laptop installs

2024-08-27 Thread eben
On 8/27/24 21:42, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: The thing is, this machine doesn't have a DVD drive. What it does have is a couple of USB ports (two different color connectors so I assume different speeds?). I am also assuming that simply putting an iso file on to a USB stick won't quite do it.

Re: laptop installs

2024-08-27 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 09:42:22PM -0400, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > On powerup I see messages referring to PXE, which if I remember > correctly involves booting off a network connection? Yes. You can almost certainly disable this feature in the BIOS settings if it bothers you. Typically

Re: laptop installs

2024-08-27 Thread Dan Ritter
Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > In the case of two of the three laptops I have here to play with, it's > simply a matter of telling it to boot off the DVD drive and then inserting > the appropriate disc and going on from there. In the case of this other one, > things get a little weird. > > O

Re: laptop installs

2024-08-27 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 21:42:22 -0400 "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." wrote: > The thing is, this machine doesn't have a DVD drive. What it does > have is a couple of USB ports (two different color connectors so I > assume different speeds?). Correct. Usually blue is USB 3.x, black 2.x. I also have a yell

laptop installs

2024-08-27 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
In the case of two of the three laptops I have here to play with, it's simply a matter of telling it to boot off the DVD drive and then inserting the appropriate disc and going on from there. In the case of this other one, things get a little weird. On powerup I see messages referring to PXE