On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 09:48:52PM +0000, Maureen Thomas wrote: > So can I please get some help. I have a portable CD/DVD and I made a USB > with a ISO on it. The computer does not have a cd/dvd burner but I have a > portable one. Can some one tell me if there are any special things I need to > do to put Debian 12 on this machine. I really hate windows and need to get > it gone. Your help is always appreciated by this old lady. Thank you in > advance> > On Friday, February 9, 2024 at 08:10:24 PM EST, Maureen Thomas > <silver...@verizon.net> wrote: > > > ,, 1
Hi Maureen, It will very much depend if your computer will boot from an exteral CD/DVD which is USB connected. If it will - check in the BIOS / firmware, then you should be fine. If not, many machines will boot from a USB stick. You may find that yours will do so, in which case the only thing you will need to do is to get the image written appropriately to a USB drive. We can help, potentially - there's enough expertise on the list to help debug problems as they arise. (Andy, just having done *lots* of Debian installs as part of the release testing for the media team - but not one from an external CD/DVD drive - from what I can see, the laptops I have do boot from external devices connected via USB, though a CD/DVD might also be seen as a hard drive. Your mileage may vary :) ) With every good wish, as ever, Andy (amaca...@debian.org)
