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Instructions how to use the tarballs and general information about loading firmware during an installation can be found in the Installation Guide see Documentation below.

If you read only one document before installing, read our Installation Howto , a quick walkthrough of the installation process. Other useful documentation includes:. This is a list of known problems in the installer shipped with Debian 8. If you have experienced a problem installing Debian and do not see your problem listed here, please send us an installation report describing the problem or check the wiki for other known problems. To report a problem with the web site, please e-mail our publicly archived mailing list debian-www lists.

The problem with the verification of written optical media is that some media types will possibly return more bytes than those found in the ISO image. Therefore, we need to read exactly the same number of sectors of data from the media as are found in the ISO image itself; reading any more bytes from the media will alter the checksum result.

Most likely, the tool you use for downloading the image does not have large file support, i. The usual symptom for this problem is that when you download the file, the file size reported by your tool and the amount of data that it downloads is too small by exactly 4 GB.

For example, if the DVD image is 4. Some old versions of wget also suffer from this problem - either upgrade to a version of wget which does not have this restriction or use the curl command line download tool: curl -C - [URL].

Note that they're all frontends to the previously mentioned low-level burning applications. On recent versions of Windows, this can be done natively by right-clicking the ISO and selecting "Burn image to disk or similar ".

This might be a little problem on older versions of Windows, as many Windows image-burning programs use their own formats for CD images. To burn the. Some programs do not offer these choices; use another burning program instead ask a friend or colleague. Here is some information about how to write CD images with specific products:.

If you can provide updated information or details for other programs, please let us know. The Toast program for Mac OS is reported to work fine with. You can be extra-safe by giving it the creator code CDr3 or possibly CDr4 and type code iImg using e. Double-clicking on the file will then open up Toast directly, without having to drag-and-drop or go via the File-Open menu.

Ensure that the settings are correct, then click on Burn. Several of the Debian and Debian Live images, notably all i, amd64 and arm64 images, are created using the isohybrid technology, which means that they may be used in two different ways:. Additionally to the method above for Linux systems, there is also the win32diskimager program available, which allows writing such bootable USB flash drives under Windows.

Please note, that Debian advises not using unetbootin for this task. It can cause difficult-to-diagnose problems with booting and installing, so is not recommended. There is no obligatory way of labeling. However, we suggest you use the following scheme to ensure interchangeability:. Note that you are allowed to use the Official designation only on CDs the image of which has a checksum that matches the one from the jigdo files of official releases.

Any CD that has no matching checksum e. In the case of official weekly snapshots, version numbers like 6. Instead, label the image with a codename like etch or a distribution name like testing. Also add Snapshot and the date of the snapshot to help identify it:. Please see the separate artwork page. Some older images are available from the archive section on cdimage.

For example, you might want to try out older images if you need support for a certain sub architecture which has been dropped for a newer release. This means that any upgrade over the net will upgrade to the current stable release. What is the best way of installing Debian on many interconnected computers? If you want to install Debian on a large number of machines and then keep all these installations up-to-date e.

In this case, you should set up a local cache, the three options being:. Installing on a large number of machines can be tricky. Fully automatic installation FAI , which is also available as a Debian package, may help you with this task.

How do I do this? Apart from a local Debian mirror , you also need plenty of disc space. The image creation scripts are packaged in the debian-cd package. However, it is usually a better idea to use the latest code from git. Still, you should have a look at the package's dependencies to ensure you have all the necessary tools. To get the latest git version, make sure you have git installed. From an empty directory, give the following command:. Should you try to use the scripts, check the debian-cd mailing list archive for solutions to the questions that will inevitably show up.

The necessary steps to set up your debian-cd image mirror and keep it up to date are described on a separate page. Some Images are missing! Only the first n images are available! Where is the rest? You can use the jigdo tool to recreate the missing ISO images instead. Skip Quicknav Blog Micronews Planet.

What are the source CDs? Where is the CD image with non-free? Is a Debian live image available? How should I label the discs? Is there any artwork for discs and covers? What is a CD image anyway? We regularly build multiple different types of image: Debian installer images in multiple sizes. See below for more details. Web site source code is available. Skip Quicknav Blog Micronews Planet. The latest stable release is: 8. Debian Hamradio Blend Stretch In the near future, live DVDs will be built for stretch the current Debian testing distribution although these are not currently available.

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