pages tagged tags/thinkpadbloghttp://blog.spang.cc/tags/thinkpad/blogikiwiki2014-03-22T04:46:25ZDebian on an X1 Carbonhttp://blog.spang.cc/posts/Debian_on_an_X1_Carbon/2014-03-22T04:46:25Z2014-03-22T04:46:25Z
<p>Installing fresh hot <a href="http://www.debian.org/">Debian 7.0</a> on a shiny new
ThinkPad X1 Carbon laptop turns out to be easy as cake. You just need to
make sure to grab the wifi firmware from unstable instead of the
all-in-one firmware tarballs, which contain a version that is missing a
couple required files.</p>
<pre><code>wget http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.0.0/multi-arch/iso-cd/debian-7.0.0-amd64-i386-netinst.iso
dd if=debian-7.0.0-amd64-i386-netinst.iso of=/dev/sdb
</code></pre>
<p>(Make sure /dev/sdb is really the usb stick you want to overwrite with
the installer!)</p>
<pre><code>wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/f/firmware-nonfree/firmware-iwlwifi_0.38_all.deb
</code></pre>
<p>And put that on a second usb stick for the installer to load the
firmware off of.</p>
<p>As far as I can tell, everything works. (Did not mess around with the
fingerprint reader, don't care.)</p>