On Wed, 21 Aug 2024 at 13:02, Michael Kjörling <c9bc136c6...@ewoof.net> wrote: > > On 21 Aug 2024 12:52 +0100, from jrjfr...@gmail.com (James Freer): > > For a live DVD install as i want to check the hardware is okay i tried > > using debian-12.5-i386-DVD-1.iso. This i presume would just spin up > > but it has asked for partitioning etc which suggests it is going to do > > a hard disk install. > > That is likely correct. You want one of the images with the "live" tag > in the name, which are only available for the amd64 architecture. > > Note that i386 (i586, i686) support is being phased out more and more. > Debian 12 is quite possibly the last version of Debian with good i386 > architecture support, and i386 support is not guaranteed throughout > its long-term support phase because of maintenance and upstream > issues. See the recent discussions regarding i386 and 32-bit on this > very list for more details. > > -- > Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se > “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”
I was hoping i was doing the right thing with this live DVD. I realise 32 bit is going but i just wanted to test the hardware. I can't risk a hard disk install until i have leave from work and can spend the necessary time on an installation. Seems odd to ask for partitioning on a liveDVD. james
