Windows 8 GPT + Debian 7.6

Ok, so I have my laptop with Windows 8 and a GPT disk. I want to dual boot. I have a USB Drive with the image: Debian KDE AMD64 Live on it.

My question is:

Is there a way, using this USB drive, that I can install Debian including grub, or do I need a different image? I can use a minimal Debian Jessie image if needed since I plan on converting this to Jessie once installed anyway.
Thanks.

GRUB2 handles GPT just fine, so that should not be a problem.

However, given that your computer runs Windows 8, my guess is that it is a UEFI machine, instead of a traditional BIOS computer. The fact that it has a GPT disk kind of confirms this, since I believe that Windows 8 does not support booting from a GPT disk on a BIOS machine (it needs either a traditional MBR disk on a BIOS machine, or a GPT disk on a UEFI computer). I have no idea whether, or how well, Debian will handle UEFI.

Correct, it is UEFI...

Anyone know if 7.6 will handle UEFI + GPT?

Here it says it may have problems, but doesn't say, it won't work.
https://www.debian.org/releases/stab...ian-installer/

Potential issues with UEFI booting on amd64 There have been some reports of issues booting the Debian Installer in UEFI mode on amd64 systems. Some systems apparently do not boot reliably using grub-efi, and some others show graphics corruption problems when displaying the initial installation splash screen. If you encounter either of these issues, please file a bug report and give as much detail as possible, both about the symptoms and your hardware - this should assist the team to fix these bugs. As a workaround for now, try switching off UEFI and installing using "Legacy BIOS" or "Fallback mode" instead. Status: More bug fixes might appear in the various Wheezy point releases.

If you do try don't forget to create efi partition.
Read this 1 also
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user.../msg01376.html

Sounds basically like I should just avoid Debian until they get caught up to 2013...