Am 01.08.2024 um 14:41 schrieb Richard Owlett: > I have an elderly Sony laptop and a more ancient desktop with unknown > motherboard happily running i386 Debian 9.0. As far as I can tell the > BIOS of neither machine supports booting from a flash drive. Neither has > functional CD/DVD drive. Both hard drives have copious free space. > > Both machines have internet access. > Though this machine is 64Bit capable and bootable from flash, it does > not have adequate free space for an additional OS. > > Are there documented install instructions covering machines described in > first paragraph? > > TIA i fail to understand, what you want to do with the machine, that has no space. Conserning the other one: i recommend installing from netinstall iso image using the hd-media files to boot the installer using grub stanza (or manually). Description in the manual is a bit short, but you can ask me, if you need.
Look up A 2.4 here: https://d-i.debian.org/manual/en.amd64/apas02.html best regards, DdB
