Richard,
Are both of your computers (laptop and desktop) 64 bit capable? Not
that this matters too much to my below suggestion.
This might help you if you can remove the drives from the laptop
and/or desktop.
I often take a drive out of a computer, then put the drive into a
computer that can boot from a installation DVD or can boot from a USB
install memory drive.
Then I install a my Debian installation selecting to install "all
drivers" and not just drivers for this computer.
After the installation, using "apt install [package]", I also
install most free and non-free firmware (particularly video and
networking), then I put the drive back into the original computer, and
boot up.
(Note: Sometimes I have issues with Nvidia graphic's cards, and after
booting up I have to press Alt-F2 to log in as root and then run any
commands to specifically install or uninstall video drivers)
After booting up, I run:
# update-initramfs -u # update-grub
And reboot again.
This process may not always work, but in most cases it has helped me
out.
George.
On Thursday, 01-08-2024 at 22:41 Richard Owlett wrote:
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
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<body>Richard,<br>
Are both of your computers (laptop and desktop) 64 bit capable? Not that this matters too much to my below suggestion.<br>
<br><div>
This might help you if you can remove the drives from the laptop and/or desktop. </div><div><br></div><div>I often take a drive out of a computer, then put the drive into a computer that can boot from a installation DVD or can boot from a USB
install memory drive. </div><div><br></div><div>Then I install a my Debian installation selecting to install "all drivers" and not just drivers for this computer.</div><div><br></div><div>After the installation, using "apt install [package]", I also
install most free and non-free firmware (particularly video and networking), then I put the drive back into the original computer, and boot up. <br></div><div><br></div><div>(Note: Sometimes I have issues with Nvidia graphic's cards, and after
booting up I have to press Alt-F2 to log in as root and then run any commands to
specifically install or uninstall video drivers)</div><div><br></div><div>After booting up, I run:</div><div><pre><code># update-initramfs -u
# update-grub</code></pre></div><div>
And reboot again.</div><div><br></div><div>This process may not always work, but in most cases it has helped me out.</div><div><br>George.</div><div><br></div>
On Thursday, 01-08-2024 at 22:41 Richard Owlett wrote:<br>
> I have an elderly Sony laptop and a more ancient desktop with unknown <br> > motherboard happily running i386 Debian 9.0. As far as I can tell the <br> > BIOS of neither machine supports booting from a flash drive. Neither has <br>
> functional CD/DVD drive. Both hard drives have copious free space.<br> > <br>
> Both machines have internet access.<br>
> Though this machine is 64Bit capable and bootable from flash, it does <br> > not have adequate free space for an additional OS.<br>
> <br>
> Are there documented install instructions covering machines described in <br>
> first paragraph?<br>
> <br>
> TIA<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
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