On Mon 01 Feb 2021 at 06:46:40 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > I have just installed Debian 10.7 to my Lenovo T510 Thinkpad having > copied debian-10.7.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso to a flash drive [the machine is > intentionally isolated from the internet].
So you have a 10.7 amd64 DVD available. On Wed 03 Mar 2021 at 09:22:45 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > I've one fine machine running i386 flavor of Debian 9.13 . > I've wish to install 64 bit flavor on a second machine. > debian-10.8.0-amd64-netinst.iso was successfully downloaded & saved. > It was copied to a USB flash drive and installation attempted. > Only did minimal install as I could not connect to internet. The netinst image is for people with access to the internet. > Connection to internet is via a T-Mobile Alcatel Linkzone Hotspot. > The WiFi connectivity programmatically disabled (i.e. it is > effectively just a modem). > It is detected by lsusb as: > Bus 002 Device 008: ID 1bbb:0195 T & A Mobile Phones > No non-free driver is needed as none are on the working system. > > I attempted to configure the ethernet device […] Which ethernet device? You don't have one in your universe. Now I realise why you wrote ethernet in quotation marks—you're pretending it's an ethernet connection. > Also I didn't find anything in > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ telling details of how > to set up a "ethernet" device. Why would there be? If you have a real Ethernet device, bought or supplied by your real ISP, you just plug a Cat5 cable into it. . You have a 10.7 amd64 DVD on a stick, . You have a USB port on the laptop, . Install it; . It will work: "install from image of DVD1 works." . Upgrade to 10.8 like everyone else does. . Then ascertain from *your* own *running* system what it requires for connectivity *before* you try to install something from scratch. It's called "bootstrapping": at each stage you need a little bit of a system that *works* to get you to the next stage. For someone who doesn't use WiFi, that gizmo looks like a dud. 3/4/5G devices with ethernet do appear to exist, but the ones I've seen are expensive. They throw in things like a firewall and so on. But they're not a mass market, so it's hardly surprising they cost. Cheers, David.
