3.6. Pre-Installation Hardware and Operating System Setup

This section will walk you through pre-installation hardware setup, if any, that you will need to do prior to installing Debian. Generally, this involves checking and possibly changing BIOS/UEFI/system firmware settings for your system. The BIOS/UEFI or system firmware is the core software used by the hardware; it is most critically invoked during the bootstrap process (after power-up).