On Thu, Feb 18, 2021, at 3:02 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > Is it possible to install Debian Bullseye on a Raspberry Pi 4 (4GB) > from a CD/DVD or USB Flash stick or uSDcard? > > If so, where would I look for instructions for doing so?
A couple of folks have asked for clarification from the OP. Well, as the OP here, I offer the following clarification of my goals for this project. I recently bought a Raspberry Pi4 (4GB) to experiment with. It's currently running Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS, because at the time I was installing it, that was the closest distro I could find to a vanilla Debian. It works pretty well and I'd be willing to stay with it for the long term if nothing better shows up. But, since I bought it to experiment with, I wondered if there was an experimental pure Debian installer I could test and report on my experiences. Sort of as a way of contributing back to the community that has been so helpful to me. Meanwhile, in another part of the woods, I've been using a sheevaplug for 12 years or so to serve DNS, DHCP, NTP and other network services to my home network. It's running Debian Buster at the moment. I'm looking forward to upgrading it to Bullseye in the near future. Which is fine, but I've heard tell that sheevaplug support is planned to be dropped in the release after Bullseye. Which got me to thinking, maybe I could use the Raspberry Pi to replace the Sheevaplug when support is finally dropped. So the goal in my OP is to find a bare-bones Debian-like (real Debian, if possible) distro that I could install and administer to provide network services the way I'd been doing with the Sheevaplug. The upshot is that my first attempt will be with one of the "ready-made" installation images, and see how much post-installation customization it allows. Then I'll try the more conventional Debian Installer and see how that works. I will, of course, share my experiences with the list. Thanks for listening... Rick
