Debian testing to install

The next steps are to some extent intuitive. Set the hostname of your system. This is the name of your personal computer, the default is debian, you could change it.

This could be changed later too. Domain name , leave it blank for a normal desktop system. This domain name plays a significant role if you are using this machine as a server, I usually keep it empty.

Now set the root password , it is always good to set a long difficult password. But you can also leave it empty and later when you set your user password, it will also be used as a password for administrative tasks. However, a root password will add an extra layer of security to your system.

Setup the username and password for the normal user , i. You get many options to Create Partitions from the simplest automatic partitioning to manual. I believe there is no need to show automatic options. I usually create partitions manually so that I can have more control. That is what I will show you. If you are inexperienced with Linux partition tables, select Guided — use entire disk. I select Manual and click on Continue. Linux is stable enough now, so you can use only the root partition.

For swap, you can use a swap file. In the Select the Disk menu, you are given a list of available file systems. Ext4 journaling file system is a reliable file system. In the next step, you have to define if you need to format the partition. The mount point specifies at which location in the directory hierarchy a device or disk partition appears.

You can label the partitions to assign them some explanatory names. You can also skip labels. For example, I usually name my system and home partitions with root and home, respectively. So, it is easier to navigate between partitions. After required settings select Done Setting up the partition to complete the partition creation for Debian. Then click on Continue. And then select the Finish partitioning and write changes to disk to finish the partitioning.

Now choose if you want to use a network mirror or not, I recommend to select YES. Because you are using the Debian Netinstall image and most of the packages will be downloaded over the internet, you will benefit from using a network mirror. Select the country where the network mirror that you want to use is located usually this is the country where your Debian system is located :.

For the mirror name, you can choose any of the listed ones, but usually the top version works fine. As you might have guessed from the name, an internet connection is required during the installation. This might be a problem if you are installing Debian in the network environment where internet access is restricted by a web proxy.

So, you can set your proxy here. The popularity contest program will anonymously submit statistics about the most used packages on this system to Debian developers from time to time. This information helps the Debian Community in making decisions such as which packages should go on the first CD.

It also helps improving future versions of Debian so that the most popular packages are the ones which are installed automatically for new users. You can skip the package usage survey by selecting No , but I recommend you to put Yes here.

This is the most important step of this guide because we want our installation to be as minimal as possible. Choose only standard system utilities. We will install all the extra packages manually later on. From this step, the base system installation is finished. This is a minimal Debian install, so there is no GUI installed.

We will install the Xfce graphical interface after the upgrade to Debian Testing. Upgrading a system to the Testing branch requires editing some system files, and you would need root privileges for that.

So, after the login, you have to switch to root. Select your installation process language and click on Continue. Now select your location used for setting the system timezone and locales, if not on the list go to Other and click on Continue. Find the region and then country. Once your done click Continue as shown below. Now configure the system locales language and country combination and click Continue. Next, choose your Keyboard Layout to use and click Continue. The next step is to set your system hostname and domain name and click Continue.

Here, you will configure system users and their passwords. Start by setting the root user password as shown below and click Continue when your done. Then create a user account for the system administrator. On the next screen, choose Manuel to perform disk partitioning.

Note : You can select Guided — use entire disk and setup LVM Logical Volume Manager as partition layout for efficient disk space management and follow the instructions.

You will see an overview of your current system disks and mount points. Select the disk to be partitioned and click Continue. Next, select the free space on the disk to partition it and click Continue. Now create the Swap area by selecting Create a new partition and set appropriate size as shown in the screen shots below. Then click Continue. Set swap partition as Primary and choose the Beginning of the free space on disk and click Continue.

Now select Done setting up partition and click Continue. In this step, you can now create the root partition by selecting the free space, then select Create new partition. Afterwards set the root partition size, make it Primary and set it at the Beginning of the free space.

Then use Ext4 file system on it and finally select Done setting up partition and click Continue as shown in the following screen shots. Once you have created all the necessary partitions, click on Finish partitioning and write changes to disk. Now configure the package manager as shown in the screen shot below. Select No and click Continue. Afterwards, press Esc to continue without a network mirror by selecting Yes.

If you see the following dialog, click on No. It will be formatted. Now insert your USB drive and press the power button of your computer. How you go to your BIOS depends on your motherboard. Be sure to google it. This is the Debian Testing installer. In this section, I will show you how to install Debian Testing. Now type in your domain name. Now click on Continue. Now you can enable root user. To enable root user, just type in a root password and click on Continue.

You may also leave it blank and click on Continue. In that case, your ordinary user should be able to use sudo. I am going to leave it blank. Now you have to partition the disk. You can use the entire disk if you select Guided — use entire disk. You can also go for manual partitioning if you select Manual. I am going to show you how to do manual partitioning as this is where most people get stuck. This is the manual partitioning window.

For EFI installation, you need at least 2 partitions. Now set the partition size to MB and click on Continue. Select Use as: and click on Continue to change the partition type. Now select Finish partitioning and write changes to disk and click on Continue.

Then click on Continue.