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    From rob stone@21:1/5 to All on Tue May 20 11:10:01 2025
    Hello,

    I have copied debian-12.11.0-amd64-netinst.iso to a USB stick and its
    size is 702545920.

    Am I correct in thinking that I can boot from this on a new laptop
    (after adjusting boot sequence) and then install Debian on that laptop
    wiping out the OS it was sold with?

    Regards,
    Robert

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  • From Peter Ehlert@21:1/5 to rob stone on Tue May 20 18:50:01 2025
    On 5/20/25 01:13, rob stone wrote:
    Hello,

    I have copied debian-12.11.0-amd64-netinst.iso to a USB stick and its
    size is 702545920.
    I prefer the netinst ISO... may be a bit of a challenge for you, see below

    Am I correct in thinking that I can boot from this on a new laptop
    (after adjusting boot sequence) and then install Debian on that laptop
    wiping out the OS it was sold with?

    yes. The installer is very powerful and a bit complicated for many.

    a more "user friendly" installer (calamares) is included with the Live ISOs.


    Regards,
    Robert



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  • From Pascal Hambourg@21:1/5 to rob stone on Tue May 20 20:50:01 2025
    On 20/05/2025 at 10:13, rob stone wrote:

    I have copied debian-12.11.0-amd64-netinst.iso to a USB stick and its
    size is 702545920.

    Am I correct in thinking that I can boot from this on a new laptop
    (after adjusting boot sequence) and then install Debian on that laptop
    wiping out the OS it was sold with?

    It depends what you mean by "copied".
    If you mean "write to the raw /dev/sdX USB drive", e.g.

    # cp debian-12.11.0-amd64-netinst.iso /dev/sdX
    or
    # dd if=debian-12.11.0-amd64-netinst.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=1M

    then the answer is yes, unless the laptop firmware is faulty or the CPU
    is not 64-bit x86. If you mean "write to a mounted filesystem on the USB
    drive, e.g.

    # mount /dev/sdX1 /mnt && cp debian-12.11.0-amd64-netinst.iso /mnt

    then the answer is no.

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  • From Nicholas D Steeves@21:1/5 to Pascal Hambourg on Tue May 20 22:30:01 2025
    Hi Rob,

    Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> writes:

    On 20/05/2025 at 10:13, rob stone wrote:

    I have copied debian-12.11.0-amd64-netinst.iso to a USB stick and its
    size is 702545920.

    Am I correct in thinking that I can boot from this on a new laptop
    (after adjusting boot sequence) and then install Debian on that laptop
    wiping out the OS it was sold with?

    It depends what you mean by "copied".
    If you mean "write to the raw /dev/sdX USB drive", e.g.

    # cp debian-12.11.0-amd64-netinst.iso /dev/sdX
    or
    # dd if=debian-12.11.0-amd64-netinst.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=1M

    Or if you used an easy to use utility like Etcher (even on another OS)

    https://etcher.balena.io/

    then the answer is yes, unless the laptop firmware is faulty or the CPU
    is not 64-bit x86.

    Cheers,
    Nicholas

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