- Download and save the Recovery BIOS (.BIO) file to a USB portable device.
- Plug the USB device into a USB port of the target Intel NUC.
- Turn on (or restart) the Intel NUC.
- During boot, when the F7 prompt is displayed, press F7 to enter the BIOS Flash Update tool.
- Select the USB device and press Enter.
- Select the .BIO file and press Enter.
- Confirm you want to update the BIOS by pressing Enter.
- Wait 2-5 minutes for the update to complete.
- Remove the USB device.
- Restart the computer.
Note: Check for USB boot option in the BIOS boot menu
- Install UNetbottin USB installer or
brew cask install - Launch UNetbootin and allow the osascript to make changes (enter your password)
- Select the ‘Diskimage’ radio button and then click the '...’ button
- Select the Ubuntu ISO file you downloaded and click 'Open'
- Then select your flash drive in the bottom row and click 'OK'
- After UNetbootin finishes, click ‘Exit’ and restart your Mac
- Press alt/option key while the Mac is restarting to choose the USB stick to try or install Ubuntu
cp "/Users/justin/Desktop/Intel NUC/OS/Ubuntu/ubuntu-core-16-amd64.img.xz" \
"/PATHTOUSB/."
- Connect the USB hub, keyboard, mouse and the monitor to the NUC
- Insert the Live USB Ubuntu Desktop flash drive in the NUC
- Start the NUC and push F10 to enter the boot menu
- Select the USB flash drive as a boot option
- Select "Try Ubuntu without installing"
1. Once the system is ready, insert the second USB flash drive containging the Ubuntu Core image file
2. Open a terminal and type the following command to check for directories mounted on the internal storage:
mount | grep mmcblk
If there is any directory mounted on the internal eMMC storage, unmount it. For instance, if you see an occurence of /dev/mmcblk0p3 on /media/ubuntu/writable type ext4 (rw,relatime,data=ordered), run sudo umount /media/ubuntu/writable.
3. Run the following command, where is the label of the second USB flash drive:
xzcat /media/ubuntu/<disk label>/ubuntu-core-16-amd64.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=32M status=progress; sync
4. Reboot the system and remove the flash drives when prompted, it will then reboot from the internal memory where Ubuntu Core has been flashed
- The system will boot then become ready to configure
- The device will display the prompt “Press enter to configure”
- Press enter then select “Start” to begin configuring your network and an administrator account. Follow the instructions on the screen, you will be asked to configure your network and enter your Ubuntu SSO credentials
Once setup is done, you can login with SSH into Ubuntu Core, from a machine on the same network, using the following command:
ssh @ The user name is your Ubuntu SSO user name, it has been reminded to you at the end of the account configuration step.