On Saturday 21 December 2024 02:20:20 pm Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sat, Dec 21, 2024 at 12:44:34PM -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > So I have a DVD with 12.something on it, not too old. I plan to install > > that, and then see what's on this workstation that I also might want to > > install, and then go from there. I'm currently using virtualbox on this > > machine, but would like to explore some other options for virtualization > > on the new box. > > > > Any suggestions as to how I might proceed to making things current and what > > other software I might want to include are welcomed... > > > > Straightforwardly - boot from the DVD (if the new machine has a DVD drive)
It will have one. > or dd a netinst .iso to a USB stick if not. > > Set the machine to boot in UEFI mode if this is available rather than > legacy MBR / both. Why is this preferable? > Do a network install. That should bring you up to date by downloading > packages for the install as it goes. > > Use KVM/QEMU instead of virtual box. I tend to use virtual machine manager Okay, I will have to look into that, and then figure out how to get the data out of this one and into the new one. > Remember that the Debian desktop environment selection installs GNOME. > If you specifically want one of the others, unselect Debian desktop > environment within tasksel - usually by toggling with spacebar - > and install one of the others. Yes. I'm pretty happy with Xfce, for the most part. I like konqueror for some of the things that it can do that the other file managers don't. And I have no particular fondness for gnome... -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin