Re: laptop installs
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 that
> mentions USB as an option then it's very likely to work.
Found that, finally, and it's odd. There's a selection for "Legacy" which can be switched to UEFI, and under the boot order stuff they mention USB floppy (!) and USB CDROM. I've fiddled with it.
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> I'd try the USB media approach as it'll probably work. If the laptop
> was never designed to have an internal optical media drive then it
> was probably also designed to boot off of USB for installation
> purposes.
It has no place for an optical drive.
> If that doesn't work, would it be possible to take the HDD/SSD out
> of the laptop and put it in another machine? You could then install
> onto that and put it back in the laptop afterwards.
I don't think that I'd end up with the proper drivers if I did that...
Digging a bit further and looking at the specs for this thing, it's a not-very-fast celeron dual core processor, only 2G of RAM, and 32G of SSD in there. I'm a bit less inclined to bother with it than I was. Maybe I'll try the memory stick and see how it goes...
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