Asus debian jessie install
Tyler Cipriani Posted

  1. Reboot, hitting F2 over-and-over

  2. Turn off Fastboot and Secureboot in UEFI

  3. Download Non-free firmware

  4. Extract firmware from deb

    ar xv firmware-iwlwifi.deb tar xvf data.tar.xz

  5. Copy to ext4 formatted sd-card

    mkfs.ext4 /dev/[sd-card] mount -t ext4 /dev/[sd-card] /mnt/sd-card cp -r lib/firmware/* /mnt/sd-card

  6. Insert Install Media

  7. Setup installer to recognize dmraid

  8. Detect network hardware

    • Ctrl-Alt F2
    • mkdir /lib/firmware
    • blkid (to list mounts)
    • mount -t ext4 /dev/sdd1 /lib/firmware
    • modprobe ahci
    • Ctrl-Alt F1

  9. Manual partition

    https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/SoftwareRaidRoot

  10. Run live disk, chroot, fuck around

    http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=116036

Troubleshooting:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=711147

  • Show root partition:

    cat /proc/cmdline

  • initramfs modules

    /etc/initramfs-tools/modules update-initramfs –k all –u

  • Large xterm:

    xterm -fn 10x20

  • chroot

    boot ubuntu live sudo -i cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/mapper/isw_cejababahfd_ASUS_03 cryptroot lvm vgscan lvm vgchange -ay mount /dev/mapper/taskmaster–vg-root /mnt mount /dev/mapper/isw_cejababahfd_ASUS_02 /mnt/boot mount -o bind /sys /mnt/sys mount -t proc /proc /mnt/proc mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev chroot /mnt

  • chroot & install dmraid

    chroot apt-get install dmraid initramfs modules

  • break raid:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2193133&page=2&p=12913689#post12913689

For realz Steps!

  1. Download Ubuntu 14.04 Live OS and Debian 8.1.0 netinst

  2. Copy to a Ubuntu USB Drive:

    • use lsblk/blkid to find USB drive name without number, e.g. /dev/sdb NOT /dev/sdb1
    • dd bs=4M ~/Downloads/ubuntu-14.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso of=/dev/[usbdrive-without-number]

  3. Download Non-free firmware

  4. Extract firmware from deb

    • ar xv firmware-iwlwifi.deb
    • tar xvf data.tar.xz

  5. Copy to ext4 formatted sd-card

    • mkfs.ext4 /dev/[sd-card]
    • mount -t ext4 /dev/[sd-card] /mnt/sd-card
    • cp -r lib/firmware/* /mnt/sd-card

  6. Boot Ubuntu from usb/change UEFI opts

    • Insert Ubuntu USB drive in Asus, Boot while holding F2
    • Boot → Fastboot [Disabled]
    • Security → Secure Boot Menu → Secure Boot Control [Disabled]
    • Advanced → SATA Configuration → SATA Mode Selection [AHCI]
    • Boot → Boot Option Priorites (hit + until USB drive is at the top)
    • F10 (save and exit)
  7. Try Ubuntu without installing
  8. Enable network, start terminal (Start → uxterm → xterm -fn 10x20)
  9. sudo gparted, delete all partitions on /dev/sda /dev/sdb

  10. Create partition table on /dev/sdb:

    • Select /dev/sdb
    • Device → Create Partition Table…
  11. Shutdown, remove usb

  12. Copy Debian netinst to USB Drive:

    • use lsblk/blkid to find USB drive name without number, e.g. /dev/sdb NOT /dev/sdb1
    • sudo dd bs=4M if=Downloads/debian-8.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso of=[usbdrive-without-number]

  13. Detect network hardware

    • Ctrl-Alt F2
    • mkdir /lib/firmware
    • blkid (to list mounts)
    • mount -t ext4 /dev/sdd1 /lib/firmware
    • modprobe ahci
    • Ctrl-Alt F1

  14. Partition Disks

    • Manual
      1. sda & sbd delete existing partitions
      2. sda1 256MB EFI System partition
      3. sda2 512MB mountat /boot ext4
      4. sda3 REMAINDER physical volume for raid
      5. sdb1 ALL physical volument for raid
      6. configure software raid, raid0 [x]sda3 [x]sdb1
      7. raid0 disk1 use as physical volume for encryption
      8. configure encrypted volumes [x]/dev/md0
      9. encrypted-disk 1: use as physical volume for lvm
      10. configure lvm volume group
      11. 20 GB / ; 4 GB swap ; remainder /home

  15. Post xmonad-install disable GDM login:

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