Re: The weird installer: Internet connection, UEFI/BIOS message and disk mistake.

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On 8/22/26 3:09 AM, Владимир Корольков wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I tried to install Debian 13 (UEFI) on my computer. Everything was 
> great, before:
>
> 1. I have a USB Wi-Fi adapter. I turned it off bevause it is hard to 
> install Wi-Fi drivers. The computer was completely had no Internet.
> While the installer checking DHCP, it said that connecting was failed 
> (I planned to connect the PC to the Internet later).
> If it failed, is it possible to connect to the Web with Ethernet after 
> that?
>
> 2. My computer has UEFI instead of BIOS.
> I turned off fast boot. When the installer said: "If you have 
> different OSes on your PC, why don't you use BIOS mode?". It confused 
> me, because I wanted to delete Windows and leave Debian on it.
>
> 3. I have two hard disks (maybe SSD). In the box which was asking me 
> which disk I want to use. There was SanDisk Cruzer Blade, it was my 
> USB drive which was used to install Debian. There was also only one (I 
> had two of them!) hard disk that had 500 GB. I never had that weird disk.
> One was  ~100 GB drive which has Windows 7 installed, another drive 
> was D:, it was empty but had ~300 GB.
> Maybe it means to use the hard disk that I never had?!
>
> Thank you.