Richard Owlett <rowl...@access.net> writes: > 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.
Maybe fix that space issue then? > Are there documented install instructions covering machines described > in first paragraph? See https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s04.en.html for booting the installer from a hard disk. Come to think of it, grub supports booting ISO images and to make it easy, you could install grml-rescueboot and boot a grml image and use grml-debootstrap to install Debian.
