Re: trying to install testing from usb

On Wed, 27 May 2026 14:03:27 -0700
Paul Scott <[email protected]> wrote:

> I followed some recent online instructions to put what I thought was
> an iso of testing on a stick and inserted the stick into the new
> laptop.

You didn't specify which instructions you followed. I suggest you start
with the Debian Installation Guide. I will guess that you want AMD64.
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual

I don't believe there is a Guide for testing yet. In any case, I doubt
there are any great differences between testing and stable right now.

> 
> The laptop has Windows 11 with room on the SSD drive for Debian.

See 6.3.7.1. Detecting other operating systems in the Guide.
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch06s03.en.html#di-make-bootable

> 
> When I restart and select USB I get a grub prompt. I haven't figured
> a command to do the install from there.

I don't know what that USB stick has on it, but it isn't the Debian
netinst DVD image.