On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 11:13 PM Carl Fink <ca...@panix.com> wrote: > My Intel NUC (Next Unit of Computing) mini-PC arrived today. Installing the > RAM and M.2 card was super-simple. Then I tried to install Debian. >
Okay folks, it looks like Microsoft and Intel are playing Hardball on people installing Linux on Laptop Computers. > > First I used unetbootin to create a Testing (Buster) netinstall USB drive. > > First of all, it's hard to get it to boot from a USB drive. You have to get > into the BIOS, which on this device by default is not prompted when you > power it up. You have to use Intel's secret handshake: turn off the NUC, > then hold the power button down for three (but not four!) seconds, which > gets you their special power-button menu, where you can turn on the BIOS > prompt (and also change the BIOS directly from that menu). You also have to > turn on legacy boot, of course, to boot from the USB drive. > [Sarcasm] How hard can you make it, for someone to figure out how to use their Computer in the way they want to? [/Sarcasml] > > ... and when the installer got to installing kernel modules, it could not > do > that because the kernel version on the downloadable image doesn't match the > version in the repository. I'm assuming this is a transient thing with this > particular weekly image. > I suspect that Microsoft likes Ubuntu more than Debian. As an administrator of eyeblinkuniverse.com, I have to work with my superiors (some of whom aren't Linux-Friendly). I will be extremely interested in your experiences. (and yes, eyeblinkuniverse.com is on Ubuntu 16.04.5). > > So I downloaded the DVD image, and used unetbootin to put that on the USB > key. Now the installer failed with the message that it could not mount the > install CD ... which was imaged onto the same USB drive I had just booted > from, so ... something weird there. > > I flashed the Intel BIOS to the latest version. This had no effect I could > see. > > Finally, rather than try to figure out the installer issue, I dug out my > DVD > burner (not used for over a year), burned an actual DVD image and plugged > the USB optical drive into the NUC, which detected it, and the install then > ran smoothly. Aside from HDMI audio not working, I mean, and restarting > PulseAudio fixed that. > Good. > > Before anyone asks: yes, I'm going to submit this through reportbug. I > wanted this here as well, at least partly to help anyone experiencing the > same problems (since this mailing list is more likely to turn up in web > searches than Debian bug reports). > -- > I thank you for that. > > Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com > Thinking and logic and stuff at Reasonably Literate > http://reasonablyliterate.com Kenneth Parker http://eyeblinkuniverse.com
