So after 2 weeks of faffing I now have Debian running on my laptop, took rather more mucking about than it should have done.\u00a0 Just so I remember what I had to do here are some notes.<\/p>\n
To get past UEFI secure boot I had to install Ubuntu, once that had successfully installed the grub boot loader, then I could install Debian non-free as the USB wifi dongle I was using was based on the Ralnk chipset, and that isn’t part of the standard package.<\/p>\n
Once that was installed, you could add the distributions for back port and\u00a0 contrib and non-free to \/etc\/apt\/sources.list also add support for 32 bit architecture and install \u00a0firmware-iwlwifi<\/p>\n
After all of that it seems to be working, which is a very good thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So after 2 weeks of faffing I now have Debian running on my laptop, took rather more mucking about than it should have done.\u00a0 Just so I remember what I had to do here are some notes. To get past UEFI secure boot I had to install Ubuntu, once that had successfully installed the grub … Continue reading [tech] this was posted from a Windows free laptop..<\/span>