[HowTo] Debian testing KDE installation by debootstrap from a live testing

Done on 30/07/2024 .

PC : 64-bit
Motherboard : Gigabyte B450M DS3H
CPU : 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Six-Core Processor
GPU : NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER/PCIe/SSE2

In short :

Download the latest Linux Nvidia driver ( NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-560.28.03.run at this time ) from https://www.nvidia.com/en-in/drivers/ on e.g. an USB flash drive .
Download a Debian live testing ; e.g. https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/week ... 64-kde.iso .
Burn it on a DVD-RW , or an USB flash drive .
Boot on it .
Log out .
Select Plasma (Wayland) at the bottom left .
Relog , " live " is the password .
Select Discover then update .
Konsole :First sector (2048-488397134, default 2048):
Last sector, +/-sectors or +/-size{K,M,G,T,P} (2048-488397134, default 488396799): 486299982First sector (486299983-488397134, default 486301696): 486299983
Last sector, +/-sectors or +/-size{K,M,G,T,P} (486299983-488397134, default 488396799): 488397134RebootCtrl-Alt-Del
Alt-F2
nano -L /etc/hostname
a

nano -L fstab
PARTUUID=bddab003-a966-42ee-abcb-41d52cc9e8b8 /boot vfat defaults 0 0

nano -L bash.bashrc
unset HISTFILE

nano -L profile
:/usr/sbin

nano -L apt/sources.list
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free-firmware non-free


In long :

Download the latest Linux Nvidia driver ( NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-560.28.03.run at this time ) from https://www.nvidia.com/en-in/drivers/ on e.g. an USB flash drive .
Download a Debian live testing ; e.g. https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/week ... 64-kde.iso .
Burn it on a DVD-RW , or an USB flash drive .
Boot on it .
Log out .
Select Plasma (Wayland) at the bottom left .
Relog , " live " is the password .
Select Discover then update .
Konsole :sudo nano -L /etc/passwd to remove the password of root removing x : root:: .nano -L /etc/hostname to eventually change the hostname of the future OS from debian to e.g. a .
fdisk /dev/nvme0n1 : nvme0n1 is the drive of the future OS .First sector (2048-488397167, default 2048):
Last sector, +/-sectors or +/-size{K,M,G,T,P} (2048-488397167, default 488397167): 486299282First sector (486300015-488397167, default 486301696): 486299283
Last sector, +/-sectors or +/-size{K,M,G,T,P} (486300016-488397134, default 488396799): 488397134n to create a new partition , w to write . Here I created 2 partitions , the last for the ESP ( EFI system partition ) of 1 GiB . I also selected GPT instead of the old MBR .The value of nvme0n1p1 ( the future root partition ) to set to root=PARTUUID= of efibootmgr -c -d /dev/nvme0n1 -p 2 -l /vmlinuz-6.9.10-amd64 -u 'initrd=\initrd.img-6.9.10-amd64 root=PARTUUID=2480d20c-4cf4-491c-bf3c-20dee2419c08 rw nvidia-drm.modeset=1'
The value of nvme0n1p2 ( the future ESP ) to set to PARTUUID= of nano -L fstab ( PARTUUID=bddab003-a966-42ee-abcb-41d52cc9e8b8 /boot vfat defaults 0 0 ) .--exclude=firmware-nvidia-graphics to prefer Nvidia than the crappy Nouveau driver .
For some reason --include=linux-image-amd64,firmware-linux,network-manager,systemd-timesyncd ( network-manager to have internet on the future OS ) & --include=linux-image-amd64,firmware-linux,dbus-system-bus,network-manager,systemd-timesyncd don't work .
nano -L /mnt/etc/fstab to put PARTUUID=bddab003-a966-42ee-abcb-41d52cc9e8b8 /boot vfat defaults 0 0 : to mount /boot of the future OS on the ESP ( usually it's /boot/efi ) .
cd /mnt/var/log;rm wtmp btmp lastlog to eventually remove the login/logout , boot/shutdown histories .
cd /mnt/etc;nano -L passwd to eventually remove the password of root removing x : root:: .
nano -L bash.bashrc to put unset HISTFILE at the end : to not save the bash command(s) history to .bash_history .
nano -L profile to put :/usr/sbin : PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games" to avoid to write e.g. /usr/sbin/mkfs.fat instead of only mkfs.fat .
nano -L apt/sources.list to add deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free-firmware non-free .See /boot to view the names of vmlinuz & initrd .
Reboot to the new minimal Debian testing .
Log as root .nano -L /etc/passwd to eventually remove the password of a removing x : a:: .
Log as ( here ) a .According to the messages of NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-560.28.03.run if gcc make linux-headers-amd64 steam-installer pkg-config libglvnd-dev not installed .
Ctrl-Alt-Del to reboot .
Alt-F2 to switch to a virtual terminal , since it's stuck here .
Log as ( here ) a . to finish the job .


Errors :
Inspired by :
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/ ... 03.en.html
https://gist.github.com/varqox/42e213b6b2dde2b636ef
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Installation_guide

Any comments , suggestions , improvements are welcome .

Statistics: Posted by jebez — 2024-07-30 15:24 — Replies 0 — Views 58

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