Should be if done properly.The hybrid iso file is not bootable from USB
Have you verified that the iso is ok? See Verifying authenticity of Debian images: https://www.debian.org/CD/verify.
With working linux installed, you should use dd or cp to write the iso to usb-drive.
Code:
$ sudo dd if=xxxxxx.iso of=/dev/sdf bs=4M status=progress | syncstatus=progress, will give you status report of the transfer.
| sync = Will make sure everything is written to disk so you can umount it.
Edit:
Note that The image must be written to the whole-disk device and not a partition, e.g. /dev/sdb and not /dev/sdb1.
About previous problems...
* You have downloaded debian 13 live iso.
* On the boot menu, you choose: "Live system" and started the Calamares installer "install Debian".
* You choosed "Manual partitioning", choosed File system and Mount point?
That should work...
I you instead test boot to the debian installer. Use the graphical installer, you can ger screendumps of every step.
Statistics: Posted by rbh — 2026-01-03 15:22