2.4.1. CD-ROM/DVD-ROM/BD-ROM
    2.4.2. USB Memory Stick
    2.4.3. Network
    2.4.4. Hard Disk
    2.4.5. Un*x or GNU system
    2.4.6. Supported Storage Systems

I am going to burn a CD-ROM and/or DVD-ROM. It's been a while and feels very retro, I guess I could do this. What is a a BD-ROM?

I am going to use dd to copy the image onto a USB Memory Stick. I've done that.

I am going to do a Network install, no I am not going to do this.

Hard Disk install, this is how I installed it previously. Let me find my notes.

Whether it's CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, USB Memory Stick, or Hard Disk install, the tricky bit is getting the computer to boot the image from that media. And, the tricky part about this is knowing the incantation for GRUB to do this. And, the additional tricky part is the mangled PC EUFI/Secure boot settings. If it's the raspberry pi it's easy: I stick the USB Memory stick in the pi and go. If it's the PC, it's well, as you said: forensics.

I wish that I could download a little install program, and install a fresh OS into one of the many free partitions on the PC, and that the installer would automatically configure GRUB to recognize that new OS without the incantations, and without stomping on other distros.