Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst
On Sat, 21 Jan 2023 at 02:35, Russell L. Harris <russell@rlharris.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 12:28:21PM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> >On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 05:23:06AM +0000, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 10:18:33PM -0600, David Wright wrote:
> >> > On Fri 20 Jan 2023 at 03:43:09 (+0000), Russell L. Harris wrote:
> >> > > I have not figured out how to configure the BIOS of a Dell Latitude
> >> > > 3510 to cause it to see and boot from a Debian netinst image (Debian
> >> > > 11) written to USB flash (8Gbyte Patriot).
> >> The problem is that the "one-time menu" does not include the flash
> >> device.
> >How did you create the flash device - what command did you use?
> After downloading the official netinst iso image, I copied it to the
> flash stick (I routinely do netinst of Debian):
> # cp debian-11.6.0-i386-netinst.iso /dev/sdb
> # sync
A *-i386-netinst.iso file is for a 32 bit CPU.
Dell Latitude 3510 uses a 64 bit CPU, so you should use
a *-amd64-netinst.iso. The "amd" in the name refers to the
CPU architecture, not the chip manufacturer.
You could try the file available from here:
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/11.6.0+nonfree/amd64/iso-cd/
That image includes non-free firmware which might be required
by your hardware, which could avoid you having to deal with
other annoyances. Alternatively an image file without that firmware
is available here:
https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/
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