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Installing Debian 8.5 "jessie" on a Lenovo X1 Carbon 4th generation (20FB)

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. The main reason is getting more familiar with Linux itself and also to have a more stable and minimal dev environment. So I finally got the machine and decided to install Debian 8.5 "jessie". 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. The choice was either Debian or Linux Mint. I went with Debian because it seems like it's the most stable.

Create a bootable USB stick

I followed the instructions at https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/amd64/ch04s03.html.en which explicitly say to not use unetbootin which is a tool that makes bootable USBs for you.

1. Download the ISO image from the downloads page: `wget http://cdimage.debian.org/debian

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Booting Debian from a RAM disk

This guide is adapted from http://reboot.pro/topic/14547-linux-load-your-root-partition-to-ram-and-boot-it/

What you need:

• lots of RAM
• Debian based distribution or any that supports booting from initramfs
• mkinitramfs or a tool to build a new initramfs
• some linux knowledge
• no need to create an image
• no need for Grub4Dos

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