(Dell Optiplex 3070 mini) Edit: Successfully installed thanks to all of you! In this specific case all I had to do was change from RAID to ACHI which I was able to do in the bios settings themselves. A warning to anyone who might do this if you want to keep windows I believe you have to edit the windows registry somehow but I did not care to keep windows at all so simply changing boot order to boot the USB with Debian installer first and then change from RAID to ACHI and boom, the windows partition will be discoverable.
Original post: What am I doing wrong here? The computer has Windows 11 on it but I don’t want to use it I want it all the way off the machine.
Can this installer not overwrite the Windows OS with Debian? Edit: Just want to say thanks to all of you I’m going to experiment around with the advice you all have given and see how it works out! Absolutely love the passion and helpfulness of this community here on Lemmy for real!
You delete the Windows partition and then select the default Debian. Select custom in the install menu and then delete all the partitions
This sounds like you are struggling with the installer UI. Everyone here seems to think it is a software bug or firmware problem. I suspect you are just new to the installer. It isn’t exactly the most user friendly.
It wasn’t that it was that the windows partition wasn’t showing up at all. In this case (DellOptiplex 3070) I had to change from RAID to ACHI and it showed up