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=Step 2: Booting with the USB stick= | =Step 2: Booting with the USB stick= | ||
Insert the USB stick and boot the new computer. Press the blue ThinkVantage button when the first page appears. A new page that allows alternative booting or BIOS setup will appear. | Insert the USB stick and boot the new computer. Press the blue ThinkVantage button when the first page appears. A new page that allows alternative booting or BIOS setup will appear. In BIOS, USB booting should be enabled. | ||
Choose F12 to select USB booting. | Choose F12 to select USB booting. | ||
The first time I did it, I got boot error because I didn't copy the image file by dd. If I just drag and drop or cp, it doesn't work. | |||
There are a few things that could be changed in BIOS. For example, I don't have a fingerprint reader, so all the settings for fingerprint can be disabled. Also, under security, there seem to be a few options that allow third-party monitoring of the laptop, so those can be disabled as well. | |||
Revision as of 16:51, 20 January 2012
I got x220 core i7. I can either log into Windows once and go to http://goodbye-microsoft.com/ or try the following.
Step 1: Get image files
Since I have network access, I was going to put image files on a usb stick via http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst#verysmall . However, this page leads to individual files and I wanted to download them all at once. According to Lenovo website, I have amd64 and here's [cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.3/amd64/iso-cd/debian-6.0.3-amd64-netinst.iso the link] for a complete package. If you want to collect other parts, try the link but when I did it (note that you need to dd if=boot.img of=/dev/sdb(or whereever the usb is in order to convert and copy the img files onto the usb stick), installation failed.
Other pages of interest at this point:
I put the file onto my USB stick.I kept putting wrong image files on the usb but I unmounted the usb stick and without removing the stick from the laptop, I did d if=(path/filename) of=/dev/sdb .
If I just type in mount, it shows where things are mounted.
Step 2: Booting with the USB stick
Insert the USB stick and boot the new computer. Press the blue ThinkVantage button when the first page appears. A new page that allows alternative booting or BIOS setup will appear. In BIOS, USB booting should be enabled.
Choose F12 to select USB booting.
The first time I did it, I got boot error because I didn't copy the image file by dd. If I just drag and drop or cp, it doesn't work.
There are a few things that could be changed in BIOS. For example, I don't have a fingerprint reader, so all the settings for fingerprint can be disabled. Also, under security, there seem to be a few options that allow third-party monitoring of the laptop, so those can be disabled as well.
