great resource. I already went through Debian installation but it's great to see a well thought-out guide that I would recommend to anyone installing the OS for the first time. Only thing I would do differently: create a larger swap partition than the recommended default: I'd double or quadruple the size (depending on your memory size and usage). I'm a heavy user of RAM with lots of browsers and tabs and quickly start filling up swap space. I had to add a swap file to handle the demand after running the system out of memory once. Creating a swap file is a good solution but not the default, and one you only find out after you've had the system running for a while. It'd be nice to go back and re-partition the disk without losing anything.
Applied to my 32bit Debian 10 dvd iso installation after install and boom sudo apt update fixed!, Such a simple fix, you absolute Legend, thank you :-)
Hi! I have installed Debian 3 days ago in a 250GB hard disk but have not started exploring it. I switched back to using Linux Lite run on another hard disk. Now every time when I go into BIOS setup, the Boot Option #1 is set to debian ... I realised this in your video at 6:50 mark also. Is it caused by the previous Debian Installation?
Hi! This glitch happens when using UEFI and switching disks with already installed systems. Apparently those people who designed UEFI didn't think about the case scenario when people try multiple systems. You can manually delete the old boot option from BIOS (there should be a command for that), then specify the path to the boot loader on the ESP partition for Linux Lite. Alternatively, you can reinstall Linux Lite and that will fix the boot option automatically.
Amazing video, now i want to drive you crazy. Could you make a video how to get back to windows from Debian 10? I'm asking or reason because I can't use my CD on the PC after install it and second I don't know how to make bootable USB drive on Debian 10. Even I can't manage to install WoeUSB. So waiting to see that because is many video form Ubuntu and other versions but form XFCE Debian 10 nothing and hard to find even info in google.
I just installed Debian a few weeks ago, as my first distribution. It's fine for beginners, with a lot of patience. After you figure out how to get wireless working and can install packages, it's pretty easy from there.
I would recommend using the CD image. Also, install nscd. That and the non-free drivers are pretty much the only thing Debian needs that doesn't come out of the box.
Great video! I have made the installation first time and all went ok, I decided to make second on and I can see that when the installation is finished as you let as know on the video that we have to watch the screen and all have to be in “green ok” and if is not “that’s mean something went wrong” I notice that in one place is red star, but is so fast that I can’t see what exactly is. What should I do? I tried to reinstall few more times, just the same. :(
Out of curiosity, What's the program called that you use for your background to see some interesting and neat statistics of your computers well being? c: Would be fun to have a look at it.
After I finished the installation and reboot as it required, there was only a single cursor on the top-left corner of my screen. Could anyone tell me what's wrong?
One more question. Right now I have Secure Boot DISABLED on my system. I wish to install Debian to a second SSD drive that I have. Should I, (a.) ENABLE Secure Boot first and foremost before plugging in my bootable-USB to install Debian, or (b.) keep Secure Boot DISABLED until I finish installing Debian onto the second drive, then go back into UEFI firmware/BIOS and ENABLE Secure Boot, or (c.) simply keep Secure Boot DISABLED when using Debian and Windows on the same computer. I know that Debian 10 provides support for Secure Boot, so should I go ahead and ENABLE it or what?
I would recommend the option c - keep Secure Boot disabled. Secure Boot has been successfully hacked so I find it useless or even worse - harmful because it gives a user the false sense of security.
@@NeonCipher Alright, thanks. I was told that if I had Secure Boot disabled it would put my system at risk to viruses. Secure Boot has been hacked?? What do you mean?
There is a vulnerability in Secure Boot. Researchers believe the security flaw cannot be fully patched: www.securityweek.com/secure-boot-vulnerability-exposes-windows-devices-attacks
I have a Dell G3 17 gaming laptop. One one SSD I have Windows 10 and on the other I wish to install Debian on a seperate NVMe SSD. Is the Dell G3 considered "cutting edge?"
Hi! Thank you for the question! It's hard to answer it without careful reviewing your laptop's specs. But I can roughly estimate (even though that might not be 100% correct). Debian has a very long development cycle to achieve stability. That means that at some point of the cycle, versions of all system components get "frozen". They don't update after that. One of the main system components is Linux kernel. Debian 10 uses Linux 4.19. It was released in October 2018. If your laptop was manufactured after that date it's likely that something won't work properly, but it really depends on what parts were used by the manufacturer.
@@NeonCipher Hey, thanks for the response. My model (Dell G3 3779) was released April 2018 and has an *Intel Core i7-8750H* 8th Gen six-core 2.2-4.1 GHz 9MB cache (User Benchmark CPU score: 84) CPU, and the graphics card is a simple *Nvidia GTX 1050 ti* Do you think this hardware will work fine?
I think it's worth a try :-) Note that Windows sometimes overwrites the boot partition so dual boot might not be easy. I recommend to make a copy of the EFI partition right after you install Debian just in case.
@@NeonCipher Well it would be installed on a completely different hard drive, so I don't think it would be a problem, right? I have seperate drives for both operating systems.
Hi, very good video. I followed all your steps and after the installation is done debian wont boot :( just a blinking cursor after grub. i7 6700k amd rx480 SSD on UEFI motherboard. Thx in advance.
That's because you need the AMD firmware. You have two options: 1. Easy: reinstall Debian using the non-free DVD image (I put the link in the description) 2. A bit more difficult: after grub while the cursor is blinking press Ctrl Alt F1 at the same time. The login prompt should appear. Fill in the username and the password. Now you have a full-featured Linux system but only in the terminal. Don't be scared :-) Open my tutorial about AMD driver installation on another computer/phone and follow all the steps in that terminal, except the xrandr command: th-cam.com/video/gOwMe_UYMdM/w-d-xo.html I hope this helps!
@@NeonCipher Yes thanks. But the wird thinks was that i actually installed the non-free version and still had to install via terminal the firmware driver. Now im happy with my Debian. Do you think i should upgrade the kernel?
I'm glad it works now! :-) I only recommend to get security updates for the kernel via the "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade". If you are talking about installing the latest kernel manually, then no. That would be a huge pain to maintain.
Hi! I have several videos about proprietary drivers: for Nvidia graphics: th-cam.com/video/KUsnygrNUMw/w-d-xo.html for AMD/ATI/Radeon graphics: th-cam.com/video/gOwMe_UYMdM/w-d-xo.html for Broadcom WiFi: th-cam.com/video/JW0f3NOjWys/w-d-xo.html
this is way much more complicated than installing ubuntu, mint, zorin, solus or manjaro which i currently use. in these cases, i only needed to burn usb, run it, prepare partition and run installator, then reboot. and thats all! why do you need to do so much things on debian?
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great resource. I already went through Debian installation but it's great to see a well thought-out guide that I would recommend to anyone installing the OS for the first time.
Only thing I would do differently: create a larger swap partition than the recommended default: I'd double or quadruple the size (depending on your memory size and usage). I'm a heavy user of RAM with lots of browsers and tabs and quickly start filling up swap space. I had to add a swap file to handle the demand after running the system out of memory once. Creating a swap file is a good solution but not the default, and one you only find out after you've had the system running for a while. It'd be nice to go back and re-partition the disk without losing anything.
Wow this is really really great I wished every tutorial video on TH-cam were so great explained
Thank you for the kind words! I really appreciate it.
Applied to my 32bit Debian 10 dvd iso installation after install and boom sudo apt update fixed!, Such a simple fix, you absolute Legend, thank you :-)
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Very easy to follow. Thanks man!
Hey! Very good video. Properly done. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Welcome! Thank you for the positive feedback! I appreciate it.
11:09 I am trying to install Debian alongside Windows 10. How can I do that?
thank you for ya efforts.
Welcome! I tried to make this video beginner-friendly but cover some important issues as well.
Hi! I have installed Debian 3 days ago in a 250GB hard disk but have not started exploring it. I switched back to using Linux Lite run on another hard disk. Now every time when I go into BIOS setup, the Boot Option #1 is set to debian ... I realised this in your video at 6:50 mark also. Is it caused by the previous Debian Installation?
Hi! This glitch happens when using UEFI and switching disks with already installed systems. Apparently those people who designed UEFI didn't think about the case scenario when people try multiple systems. You can manually delete the old boot option from BIOS (there should be a command for that), then specify the path to the boot loader on the ESP partition for Linux Lite. Alternatively, you can reinstall Linux Lite and that will fix the boot option automatically.
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Thanks! Glad you like it!
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Amazing video, now i want to drive you crazy. Could you make a video how to get back to windows from Debian 10? I'm asking or reason because I can't use my CD on the PC after install it and second I don't know how to make bootable USB drive on Debian 10. Even I can't manage to install WoeUSB. So waiting to see that because is many video form Ubuntu and other versions but form XFCE Debian 10 nothing and hard to find even info in google.
I just installed Debian a few weeks ago, as my first distribution. It's fine for beginners, with a lot of patience. After you figure out how to get wireless working and can install packages, it's pretty easy from there.
I would recommend using the CD image. Also, install nscd. That and the non-free drivers are pretty much the only thing Debian needs that doesn't come out of the box.
Great video! I have made the installation first time and all went ok, I decided to make second on and I can see that when the installation is finished as you let as know on the video that we have to watch the screen and all have to be in “green ok” and if is not “that’s mean something went wrong” I notice that in one place is red star, but is so fast that I can’t see what exactly is. What should I do? I tried to reinstall few more times, just the same. :(
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But at the end when you have to remove the usb, if you remove the usb before you press continue, it just freezes
Out of curiosity, What's the program called that you use for your background to see some interesting and neat statistics of your computers well being? c: Would be fun to have a look at it.
That's Conky system monitor. I made a video on how to install and use it:
th-cam.com/video/s5csaCSyfoo/w-d-xo.html
Bro are you planning to do the xfce makeover that you said at the end of the video?
Yep, definitely. I'm glad you asked about it because I was not sure if people would be interested in that.
Very detailed video! Thanks. I have to say Debian is very hard to install.
Welcome! In the Linux world the biggest diamonds are uncut. I'm glad that the video helped.
After I finished the installation and reboot as it required, there was only a single cursor on the top-left corner of my screen. Could anyone tell me what's wrong?
Graphic drivers are missing?
One more question. Right now I have Secure Boot DISABLED on my system. I wish to install Debian to a second SSD drive that I have. Should I, (a.) ENABLE Secure Boot first and foremost before plugging in my bootable-USB to install Debian, or (b.) keep Secure Boot DISABLED until I finish installing Debian onto the second drive, then go back into UEFI firmware/BIOS and ENABLE Secure Boot, or (c.) simply keep Secure Boot DISABLED when using Debian and Windows on the same computer. I know that Debian 10 provides support for Secure Boot, so should I go ahead and ENABLE it or what?
I would recommend the option c - keep Secure Boot disabled. Secure Boot has been successfully hacked so I find it useless or even worse - harmful because it gives a user the false sense of security.
@@NeonCipher Alright, thanks. I was told that if I had Secure Boot disabled it would put my system at risk to viruses.
Secure Boot has been hacked?? What do you mean?
There is a vulnerability in Secure Boot. Researchers believe the security flaw cannot be fully patched:
www.securityweek.com/secure-boot-vulnerability-exposes-windows-devices-attacks
I have a Dell G3 17 gaming laptop. One one SSD I have Windows 10 and on the other I wish to install Debian on a seperate NVMe SSD. Is the Dell G3 considered "cutting edge?"
Hi! Thank you for the question! It's hard to answer it without careful reviewing your laptop's specs. But I can roughly estimate (even though that might not be 100% correct).
Debian has a very long development cycle to achieve stability. That means that at some point of the cycle, versions of all system components get "frozen". They don't update after that. One of the main system components is Linux kernel. Debian 10 uses Linux 4.19. It was released in October 2018. If your laptop was manufactured after that date it's likely that something won't work properly, but it really depends on what parts were used by the manufacturer.
@@NeonCipher Hey, thanks for the response. My model (Dell G3 3779) was released April 2018 and has an *Intel Core i7-8750H* 8th Gen six-core 2.2-4.1 GHz 9MB cache (User Benchmark CPU score: 84) CPU, and the graphics card is a simple *Nvidia GTX 1050 ti*
Do you think this hardware will work fine?
I think it's worth a try :-) Note that Windows sometimes overwrites the boot partition so dual boot might not be easy. I recommend to make a copy of the EFI partition right after you install Debian just in case.
@@NeonCipher Well it would be installed on a completely different hard drive, so I don't think it would be a problem, right? I have seperate drives for both operating systems.
Back in the good old MBR/BIOS era it wouldn't be a problem for sure. But unfortunately with UEFI things got tricky.
Hi, very good video. I followed all your steps and after the installation is done debian wont boot :( just a blinking cursor after grub. i7 6700k amd rx480 SSD on UEFI motherboard. Thx in advance.
That's because you need the AMD firmware. You have two options:
1. Easy: reinstall Debian using the non-free DVD image (I put the link in the description)
2. A bit more difficult: after grub while the cursor is blinking press Ctrl Alt F1 at the same time. The login prompt should appear. Fill in the username and the password. Now you have a full-featured Linux system but only in the terminal. Don't be scared :-) Open my tutorial about AMD driver installation on another computer/phone and follow all the steps in that terminal, except the xrandr command:
th-cam.com/video/gOwMe_UYMdM/w-d-xo.html
I hope this helps!
@@NeonCipher Yes thanks. But the wird thinks was that i actually installed the non-free version and still had to install via terminal the firmware driver. Now im happy with my Debian. Do you think i should upgrade the kernel?
I'm glad it works now! :-) I only recommend to get security updates for the kernel via the "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade". If you are talking about installing the latest kernel manually, then no. That would be a huge pain to maintain.
Thank You fir video, but i still don't understand how to install Debian without wired Internet in case if my Wi-Fi adapter is't supported by default.
Hey Kirill, you are welcome! You should try do download and install the non-free Debian version. I put the link in the description.
@@NeonCipher, thanks. I'm trying it now. Tell me also why You recommend Xfce and strongly don't recommend GNOME?
That's a pretty complex subject. I should make a separate video about it. Subscribe to stay tuned!
@@NeonCipher, I subscribed!
I just installed free debian version, without propretiary drivers. Can you tell me how to install these drivers now? Or at least WiFi? Pls ;-;
Hi! I have several videos about proprietary drivers:
for Nvidia graphics: th-cam.com/video/KUsnygrNUMw/w-d-xo.html
for AMD/ATI/Radeon graphics: th-cam.com/video/gOwMe_UYMdM/w-d-xo.html
for Broadcom WiFi: th-cam.com/video/JW0f3NOjWys/w-d-xo.html
this is way much more complicated than installing ubuntu, mint, zorin, solus or manjaro which i currently use. in these cases, i only needed to burn usb, run it, prepare partition and run installator, then reboot. and thats all! why do you need to do so much things on debian?
Thank you for the question! I'm going to make a video about why Debian for some users might be a much better option than the distros you mentioned!
@@NeonCipher ;)
Stack on mode tty after install. How
Did you try the non-free version? I mentioned it in the video.
on linux just use Etcher
Thanks, but I prefer dd! :-)