FedoraNUC

Using the NUC as a Fedora workstaton.

Preparing the NUC

• Download Fedora 31

• Download the Live USB Creator

• Burn the iso to the USB drive (I used Balena Etcher brew cask install etcher)

• Put the USB drive into a back usb port

• Boot the NUC and use F10 to enter the boot menu, select the USB drive, boot into Fedora Live Workstation

• Install to hard drive and use the wizard to set it up

• Remove the usb device and power on

• Run through the setup wizard

• Control Panel -> Devices -> Display to select a good resolution

• Control Panel -> Power to turn off power saving like disable network and screen

• Control Panel -> Details -> Users to enable automatic login

• Control Panel -> Sharing -> Remote Login = ON

• Control Panel -> Network -> [Cog] to find the IP address

• Test ssh login from another machine and configure from there

• sudo -i

• dnf update -y dnf* && dnf update -y

• Disable IPv6 if required with sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=1 && sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6=1

• dnf install -y ansible

• git clone https://github.com/Tom-Davidson/FedoraNUC.git /root/Provisioning

• ansible-playbook --inventory "<IP_ADDRESS>", --user <SSH_USERNAME> --ask-pass --ask-become-pass /root/Provisioning/<INSTALL_TYPE>.yml

• Copy the updated bios onto the USB drive

• F7 to enter BIOS update, select BIOS file from USB