Debian Linux Setup Guide For ThinkStation P330 Guidelines for Debian 9.5 and later Section 1 - BIOS Setup and Pre-Installation Steps The first step before installing Linux is to make sure BIOS is setup correctly • For UEFI/GPT installations (recommended): • Boot into BIOS by pressing the F1 function key at the “Lenovo” splash screen • Tab over to the Exit menu tab, and set OS Optimized Defaults to Enabled • Select Yes at the confirmation screen indicated below • Tab over to the Security menu tab, select Secure Boot, and set the option to “Disabled” • Select F10 to “Save and Exit” BIOS. • Insert the Debian installation media (either through USB or CD/DVD) • Power on the system and press the F12 function key whenever the following Lenovo splash screen appears • Select the Linux bootable installation media UEFI option from the F12 boot menu • For Legacy/MBR installations (not recommended): • Boot into BIOS by pressing the F1 function key at the “Lenovo” splash screen • Tab over to the Exit menu tab, and set OS Optimized Defaults to “Disabled” • Select Yes at the confirmation screen indicated below • Select F10 to “Save and Exit” BIOS • Insert the Debian installation media (either through USB or CD/DVD) • Power on the system and press the F12 function key whenever the following Lenovo splash screen appears • Select the Linux bootable installation media Legacy option from the F12 boot menu Section 2 – Installing Debian Linux 9.5 Please refer to the following instructions and screenshots on how to install Debian 9.5 on the ThinkStation P330 workstations • Select Graphical Install from the Debian GNU/Linux UEFI Installer menu • Select a language • Select your location • Configure the keyboard • Detect network hardware: Select no ethernet card and press continue • A similar window will pop up after the above step, ignore it and move forward by pressing continue • Configure the network by entering a hostname • Set up a root password • Set up a user account and password • Set up a username • Set up a password for the username created above • Configure the clock according to your time-zone • Select disks partition ▪ Guided – use entire disk option has been selected in this document ▪ Selection can be made according to the user’s need and/or convenience • Select disk to partition • Choose how to partition the disk • Select Finish partitioning and write changes to disk and press continue to confirm partitions • Select Yes to confirm partitions again • Configure the package manager: Select Yes to use a network mirror • Configure the package manager: Select your country for Debian archive mirror • Configure the package manager: Select a Debian archive mirror ▪ ftp.us.debian.org is used in this document • Configure the package manager: Enter a HTTP proxy or leave blank if not needed ▪ Note: This option is left blank in this document • Let the installer start the base installation • Configure the package manager: Select No to scan another CD or DVD • Popularity contest: Select Yes/No according to the user’s choice ▪ No has been selected in this document ▪ This choice will not affect the performance of your operating system • Select software to install • Let the installer start the installation • Press continue to reboot the system • At the boot grub menu, select *Debian GNU/Linux and press “e” to edit the boot parameters • Add nomodeset at the end of the boot parameter line, and press F10 to boot • Log in to the system by using your credentials • Debian desktop screen • Remove the installation media Section 3 – Updating the Source List to use the Debian Repositories Use the debian repositories to download quick driver and/or software package releases Step 1: • Log in as root: su • Edit the following file ‘/etc/apt/sources.list’ and add the following lines: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch main deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch main deb http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch-updates main deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch-updates main deb http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main deb-src http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main deb http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch main contrib non-free deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch main contrib non-free deb http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch-updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch-updates main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main contrib non-free • Uncomment the deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 9.2.0 _Stretch_ - Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 20171007-12:11]/ stretch main line from /etc/apt/source.list Step 2: • Run the following command: ‘apt-get update’ Step 3: o Install gcc: apt-get install gcc o Install make: apt-get install make o Install linux-headers: apt-get install linux-headers* • Log in as root: su • Installing gcc • Installing make • Installing linux headers o Run command: apt-get install linux-headers* to install linux headers o Run command: make install to make the file executable • Use the make install command to compile files in the above package Section 4 – Installing the Ethernet Driver ▪ Note: There won’t be an internet connection as we have not selected any Ethernet card driver during the installation. Let us first install an appropriate driver for the same ▪ In this document a driver package e1000e- 3.4.2.1 is copied and unzipped on the system using a USB ▪ Mentioned below is a direct link to the Ethernet driver used here: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/15817/Intel-Network-Adapter-Driver-for-PCIe-Intel- Gigabit-Ethernet-Network-Connections-Under-Linux- • Locate the Ethernet card package on your system using terminal • Install linux headers: cd into the src directory and install linux-headers using the following steps • Execute following steps to load modules for enabling internet from the above Ethernet package • Install net-tools package to have the ifconfig utility • Check your IP address using ifconfig command Section 5 – Installing the Nvidia Graphics Driver In order to get optimal performance out of the Nvidia GPU, it is a good idea to install the Nvidia graphics driver To install the Nvidia driver from Debian repository, use command: apt-get install nvidia-driver To install the latest Nvidia driver (manually), follow the steps below: • Download Nvidia driver o At last, download Nvidia driver for your graphic card from the below link- https://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-in o Fill in the details like Product Type, Product Series, Product, Operating System, and Language as per the graphic card in use and search an appropriate driver o After the download is complete, open the terminal and log in as root: su, and locate the Nvidia driver o Execute the driver using: sh NVIDIA–Linux–x86_64–390.87.run o Accept the Nvidia driver license o Ignore the warning and press OK to continue o Select No o Select Yes to update your X configuration file o Driver installation is now complete • Reboot and log in to the system, open the terminal window and ensure if the Nvidia driver is running properly by using nvidia-smi command .