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Re: Install Report: Buster Weekly Build on Intel NUC (NUC8I5BEK1)

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On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 11:13 PM Carl Fink <carlf@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          carl@finknetwork.com
> Thinking and logic and stuff at Reasonably Literate
> http://reasonablyliterate.com


Kenneth Parker
http://eyeblinkuniverse.com

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Install Report: Buster Weekly Build on Intel NUC (NUC8I5BEK1) Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com> - 2019-02-07 05:20 +0100
  Re: Install Report: Buster Weekly Build on Intel NUC (NUC8I5BEK1) Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> - 2019-02-07 07:20 +0100
    Re: Install Report: Buster Weekly Build on Intel NUC (NUC8I5BEK1) Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-02-08 13:30 +0100
      Re: Install Report: Buster Weekly Build on Intel NUC (NUC8I5BEK1) Carl Fink <carl@finknetwork.com> - 2019-02-08 15:30 +0100
  Re: Install Report: Buster Weekly Build on Intel NUC (NUC8I5BEK1) "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2019-02-07 07:40 +0100
    Re: Install Report: Buster Weekly Build on Intel NUC (NUC8I5BEK1) Carl <carlf@panix.com> - 2019-02-07 12:40 +0100
      Re: Install Report: Buster Weekly Build on Intel NUC (NUC8I5BEK1) "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2019-02-07 15:10 +0100
        Re: Install Report: Buster Weekly Build on Intel NUC (NUC8I5BEK1) Carl Fink <carl@finknetwork.com> - 2019-02-07 15:30 +0100

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