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    From Erwan David@3:633/10 to All on Monday, July 20, 2026 17:20:01
    Hi,

    New laptop will soon be here, so I have some questions about debian installer

    1) I use testing. Is it safe to download netinst iso of testing, or should I stay with my old method of
    installing a minimal stable, upgrade it to testing, then install the list of packages I saved from former laptop ?

    2) Last time I installed, it was a debian 12 and the installer kept only 1GB for swap, too small for hibernation. Is it still the case ?

    3) I will have an AMD CPU with integrated graphics, I had Intel. Is there some specific package to install ?

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  • From Marco Moock@3:633/10 to All on Monday, July 20, 2026 18:30:01
    Am 20.07.26 um 17:20 schrieb Erwan David:
    1) I use testing. Is it safe to download netinst iso of testing, or should I stay with my old method of
    installing a minimal stable, upgrade it to testing, then install the list of packages I saved from former laptop ?

    Should work.

    2) Last time I installed, it was a debian 12 and the installer kept only 1GB for swap, too small for hibernation. Is it still the case ?

    You can use the non-graphical installer and select the size and target
    you want.

    3) I will have an AMD CPU with integrated graphics, I had Intel. Is there some specific package to install ?

    Should be in the kernel. Be sure you have a current kernel.

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  • From Charles Curley@3:633/10 to All on Monday, July 20, 2026 19:40:01
    On Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:03:00 +0200
    Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> wrote:

    1) I use testing. Is it safe to download netinst iso of testing, or
    should I stay with my old method of installing a minimal stable,
    upgrade it to testing, then install the list of packages I saved from
    former laptop ?

    I use the weekly testing netinst every month or so to check it out on a
    VM, and be sure my post-installation scripts still work. https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-cd/ They
    work just fine


    2) Last time I installed, it was a debian 12 and the installer kept
    only 1GB for swap, too small for hibernation. Is it still the case ?

    Use the expert installation. You will have a lot more questions to
    answer, but you will also have greater flexibility. Including setting up
    the disk as you like it. And then there's the opaque art of preseeding?
    ??.



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  • From Erwan David@3:633/10 to All on Tuesday, July 21, 2026 08:10:01
    On Mon, Jul 20, 2026 at 07:35:23PM CEST, Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> said:
    Use the expert installation. You will have a lot more questions to
    answer, but you will also have greater flexibility. Including setting up
    the disk as you like it. And then there's the opaque art of preseeding?.

    I did preseeding in a former life, but not for my personal laptop which I change about once every 7 or 8 years

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