Intel NUC D54250WYKH

[Feathers McGraw]

My NUC has arrived!



Excited

[oshunluvr]

Ah! New toys!

[MoonRise]

I've looked a similar systems. Let us know how it performs!

[Feathers McGraw]

Embarrassingly, I can't actually install anything yet because I don't have any mini HDMI or mini DisplayPort cables!!

[MoonRise]

Local store? If one is near you.

[Feathers McGraw]

I'm considering installing Ubuntu to the new SSD using my laptop, setting up SSH then putting the SSD back in the NUC to boot...

[oshunluvr]

Embarrassingly, I can't actually install anything yet because I don't have any mini HDMI or mini DisplayPort cables!!

What? What kind of techno-geek are you? I guess you don't mess with your phone much?

[Feathers McGraw]

I'm sorry for letting you down

My phone is a waterproof brick, I use my N7 (deb) for the things most people use their smartphones for, and that doesn't have any funky ports.

[Feathers McGraw]

Hmm... so I created an Ubuntu server live USB, stuck the SSD in an external enclosure and tried to install it, instructing the installer to use the whole of /dev/sdb which is the external drive, and partition it automatically. I get this error:



Any ideas why? Could it be something to do with the enclosure?

[Feathers McGraw]

I tried manually creating the partitions beforehand, which seemed to have worked, but then I got this error after telling Ubuntu which partitions to use for which bits:



I have a feeling this is due to me foolishly writing the .iso straight to the SSD with dd by mistake (I meant to write to my USB flash drive), should I write zeros to the SSD to clear it completely?

[Qqmike]

Just curious here ... doing this on your laptop? What are the drives? One for the USB installer; one in the laptop; the external SSD? sda, sdb, sdc?

[Feathers McGraw]

Just curious here ... doing this on your laptop? What are the drives? One for the USB installer; one in the laptop; the external SSD? sda, sdb, sdc?

Yep, on my laptop. When I boot Kubuntu normally I have a 256GiB SSD in the laptop, which is /dev/sda , the 128GiB SSD in the enclosure, which is /dev/sdb , and the 64GiB live USB which is /dev/sdc.

When booting to the live USB, the first two are the same. The default option is to partition the SSD in the laptop (sda), I have to select manual and then tell it to partition sdb automatically, or direct it to use the pre-made partitions.

I've tried deleting everything from the pre-made SSD partitions on sdb from within the manual partitioner, which works, but when I get to the next step I still get that error about not being able to remove system files :s

I'm hoping it's just a problem with the cheap enclosure, not with the SSD.

[Qqmike]

Preparing to get out of town this morning, and so not looking deep at details, but did run into two similar:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...y/+bug/1232264
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/inde...t-1376277.html
(see linkrox comment)

[Feathers McGraw]

Thanks, I came across those too but I'm not sure what the solution is!

[Qqmike]

Exactly. Yeah, looks like 'they' changed partition formats and Ubuntu version to make it go.