Jan 04, 2019 Updating the document for the new debian version
Download the netinst image for amb64, and copy it to a sdcard/usbstick/etc... Atention Figure out which device (sdX) is your removable media, otherwise you might delete your entire system!
dd if=/tmp/debian-buster.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M; sync
It is extremelly recommended that you check that the files has been properly copied to the device. To do so, we will copy them back to a file, truncate it so it is the same size as the original, and check if they are exactly the same:
dd if=/dev/sdX of=/tmp/from-removable-media.iso bs=4M
truncate --reference /tmp/debian-buster.iso /tmp/from-removable-media.iso
diff -s /tmb-debian-buster.iso /tmp/from-removable-media.iso
After that, we need to provide the required firmware for the wifi card, which we can get over here. Find the missing .ucode that the installer warns you about (should be iwlwifi-7265D-27.ucode) and put it in a second thumbdrive/sdcard. The warning will look like something like this.
Now we are ready to begin the installation!
Reboot the computer, press ESC while its booting, and it should take you to the boot menu. Over there selecte your device and begin the instalation.
Caution: Make sure to load the sdcard/thumbdrive in UEFI mode, since the motherboard supports UEFI.
After a painless installation, with the wifi already working, we are ready to boot under debian.
When the Grub menu pops out, press the e key. Currently the nouveau drivers for the NVIDIA card are not stable yet (in my case, it was constantly blocking one of the 4 CPU's), so we are going to disable it. Look for a line that says "linux..." or something similar, and add nouveau.modeset=0 to the end.
Now your computer should be able to boot. We are going to make this change permanent by modifying the file /etc/default/grub, so it looks like this
GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet nouveau.modeset=0"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
Run update-grub, reboot and you are good to go.
With this baisc installation, default to click doesn't work, but following this
stackoverflow post, there is an option for the libinput library to enable it. Editing the file
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-libinput.conf, and change the touchpad section to this:
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "libinput touchpad catchall"
MatchIsTouchpad "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "libinput"
Option "Tapping" "on"
EndSection
The microphone didn't work, and I have fixed it but I don't remember how. I think it had to do with installing some drivers package, and playing with the pulseaudio options.
@talkahe Not yet, it's been the only computer I have access to right now (the older one finally broke) and until I back it up properly I don't want to mess with it... I'll try to go for it in a couple of weeks though.
@Nyno-Kun Are you sure the computer is not in airplane mode or anything similar? Can you double check those are installed?