On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 4:06 AM John Jason Jordan <joh...@gmx.com> wrote: > > On Sun, 10 Sep 2023 22:26:42 -0700 > John Jason Jordan <joh...@gmx.com> dijo: > > >On Sun, 10 Sep 2023 16:55:57 -0700 > >Keith Lofstrom <kei...@keithl.com> dijo: > > > >Re Debian 12 Hookworm > > > >Just for kicks I downloaded the Live Xfce ISO and burned it to a small > >USB 3.0 drive. I may see what happens if I try to install it in > >VirtualBox. Meantime I'm trying to find out details about it, > >specifically its potential snapitude, and a few other things. > > I spent two hours trying to get Virtualbox to recognize either the > optical drive or a USB drive where I had installed the Live Debian 12 > ISO that I downloaded. I finally succeeded at getting the virtual > machine to use the optical drive, although I failed with the USB drive. > > Once I finally got the Live OS to boot there was an 'Install Debian' > icon, so I clicked on it. That popped up an error message that > 'Calamares' (the install program) was not executable. There was a > button to make it executable, so I clicked on it and things progressed. > It finally got to the end of the questions and answers and presented a > summary of what it was going to do in the install. I looked all over > for a button that said 'OK' or 'Continue,' or anything to move on and > let it install the OS, but there was no way to get past that point. > > C'mon Debian people, don't you test this stuff?
I don't see that installing from the Live OS is the recommended path for installing Debian. The netinst method is one of the recommended installation methods. https://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ This downloads a minimal install image that then allows you to choose other packages that get downloaded and installed after the system is installed enough to have network access. Bill
