Notes of Dual Boot Debian 11 and Windows 11
# Download ISO
The first thing you need to do is download Debian image file, which can be found here, Downloading Debian CD/DVD images via HTTP/FTP (opens new window).
# Create Bootable USB Driver
BURN Tools: to create bootable USB drivers.
Live USB Driver: supports live driver, which means it can set persistence partition.
Rufus (opens new window) (Support Live USB Driver)
UNetbootin (opens new window) (Support Live USB Driver)
# Free a Patition or Disk
In Windows11, right click the windows menu, and select disk management. and then refer to Overview of Disk Management | Microsoft Docs (opens new window)
You will need this space to store Debian OS and mounting file system.
# Change Bios Settings
After burning the Debian image, you should go to the bios settings (looking for help from your vendor website) to set the priority of the computer boot item and make sure the USB driver is in the top order.
# Finsh Setup Guide
Just follow the setup guide to finish the installation process. Be careful to mount the file system on disk or partition right, otherwise, you will never get those data back.
# Setting Mirror Site
Just edit /etc/apt/sources.list file, you'd better backup it first.
refer to Debian Tsinghua Open Source Mirror (opens new window)
# Set Environment Variables
Just edit ~/.bashrc or ~/zshrc and append the following commands.
For Example, add JDK to PATH.
export JAVA_HOME="path/to/yourJDK"
export PATH="PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin/"
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# Questions & Answers
- failed to load firmware rtl...(-2).
This question occurred while I using the Rufus to burn the image, it was disappeared when I used balenaEtcher.
more references:
unable to load firmware rtl_nic in Debian 11 | pacesettergraam (opens new window)
- failed to detect external monitor.
This is because the dual graphics card is not properly driven, there are two solutions.
- only use the discrete graphics card in bios settings if your computer vendor supports it.
- refer to NVIDIA Optimus (opens new window)
more references:
- Restart failed after installing nvidia-driver package.
This can be solved by entering recovery mode (advance boot Debian with recovery mode).
first, you need to enable the network, you can check your network interface name by ip link, and up the interface by ip link set eno1 up, note modify the eno1 to yourself interface name that checked before this step. finally, use dhclient eno1 to get ip address so that make network works.
the next thing you should do is run apt purge nvidia-* and apt install linux-headers-amd64 nvidia-driver firmware-misc-nonfree, these two commands can help you reinstall the nvidia driver.