![]() ![]() Luckily Debian allows you to boot different kernels so I could install the necessary drivers from Debian booted with the old kernel. So I updated the kernel and it booted but video didn't work. I knew from that the wifi and sound wouldn't work, and in order to get them to work I'd have to install an updated Linux kernel. This is where the real trouble began for me. I went with GNOME for the desktop environment. Select it, press enter, and you should get taken into the Debian installer which is nice and easy to step through. Once you exit the BIOS and spam the F12 key you should see your USB in the list of devices to boot from. See the BIOS section of Boot USB installer and install Debian There are some BIOS settings that need to be changed in order to boot from USB. The machine shipped with Windows 10, which doesn't fully shutdown when you "shut down" the OS so run shutdown /s /t 0 in command prompt or else you can't restart and enter the BIOS (F12). Update the BIOSįor some reason the version of the BIOS that comes installed on the 4th gen X1 Carbon won't boot from a USB. An unfortunate side-effect was that Mac OS X's Disk Utility can no longer reformat my USB sticks. If you don't have another USB then follow the Debian instructions on how to make a multi-partitioned bootable USB. You'll need another USB for installing software downloaded from another machine because there won't be internet access at first. This will wipe everything off the USB so you'll have to reformat it if you want to use it again. ![]() Then unmount it with diskutil unmountDisk diskX.Ĭp debian-8.5.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso /dev/disk1 Write the image to a USB device, which you'll need to find first with diskutil list on a Mac (for me it was disk1).Download the ISO image from the downloads page: wget.I followed the instructions at which explicitly say to not use unetbootin which is a tool that makes bootable USBs for you. I went with Debian because it seems like it's the most stable. The choice was either Debian or Linux Mint. Why Debian? Well, I tried installing Arch Linux once and couldn't get past getting wifi to work, and Ubuntu seemed like it added too much stuff. So I finally got the machine and decided to install Debian 8.5 "jessie". The main reason is getting more familiar with Linux itself and also to have a more stable and minimal dev environment. I've had my mind on switching my development machine from a 13" MacBook Pro Retina to a Lenovo X1 Carbon running Linux for a while. I went with Xubuntu instead and everything works FLAWLESSLY. It was an utter failure because of some boot issues. UPDATE : I got a new Lenovo X1 Carbon 5th gen and tried to do the same setup with Debian 9.3.0. Installing Debian 8.5 "jessie" on a Lenovo X1 Carbon 4th generation (20FB) - 2016 ![]()
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