On Thu, 2019-04-11 at 20:01 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > On 4/11/19 5:02 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > > I'm preparing to install Win 10 and Deb 9 on a new ZaReason laptop > > which > > has no installed OS on it. > > > > It comes with one 120 Gb SSD as its primary drive and has an empty > > bay > > where I will install a Samsung evo 860 1 Tb SSD. Detailed instructions for installation media are at
https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/amd64/ch04s03.html.en#usb-copy-isohybrid They also apply to live-cd/live-dvd .iso media per https://www.debian.org/CD/live/ The process (using the cp command on linux or functionally similar commands on Windows) creates a file system that you do not have reason to know or care about. The last one I used had a small EFI partition (type ef) and 2.4 GB marked empty that actually contained all the data and mount recognizes as an iso9660 file system. Other parts of the Debian Installation Guide are likely to be useful as well. I can offer the following dual boot installation as a suggestive example. This was to a HP Pavilion laptop dating from about 2011 that has a traditional BIOS rather than EFI with the original HP setup and Windows 10 (upgrade from Windows 7). I can't claim the procedure will work on other equipment or EFI, but it seems reasonably likely that it would. In this case, I did not touch the internal disk because the HP factory installation of Windows and various HP utilities used all four available partitions. Instead, I installed Debian (Buster, but Stretch should not be different in any significant way) on a 128 GB USB key, using either the Live image mentioned above or a Netinstall .iso image put on the USB key as described in the installation guide. I let the installer partition the USB key that was the install target and picked LVM, but specified distinct /, /usr/, /var, /home, and swap partitions and left some empty space within the LVM volume group. The installer offers a number of other options. Once partitioning was complete, the installation was like any other Debian install, including grub installation, which automatically found both the USB "disk" and the internal disk with Windows. I left the BIOS boot sequence with the USB device ahead of the internal disk in the boot sequence, resulting in: 1. With the USB key in place, the Grub menu allowed choice of either Debian (default) or Windows from the internal disk; 2. With the USB key removed, Windows booted normally. There were no issues except that I seem to remember having to restore the BIOS boot sequence after a Windows Patch Tuesday. Regards, Tom Dial > > Which model zareason laptop? > > > Which make, model, form factor, and interface 120 GB SSD? > > > Which form factor and interface Samsung EVO 860 1 TB SSD? > > > How much RAM? > > > Make and model WiFi interface? > > > David