Booting From USB Drive

[Alan]

I wanted to switch my AS 5 over to running Linux (Debian 12). But the only way I could do that is to boot the installer from a flash drive. However after I eventually got into the BIOS (manuals mention F7 but in reality I need F2) I can't find anywhere to tell it to boot from the usb drive.

Is this possible, or have I made a big mistake buying this Mini PC?

 

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[Alan]

I did actually manage to solve this. In simple terms...

1. Disable Security
2. Use a FAT32 formatted USB (I had built my image on the USB drive with Linux "DD" before) and I used Rufus to load the installation media on to it.
3 With the bootable USB plugged in go to the bios and temporarily change the boot order

I'm still a little way from having this computer as my working desktop machine, but that is mainly because of the transfer of all the data from my old machine.