Can Linux be installed on a noteebook?

[Buck Fankers]

The seller had already sent me the order, according to what he explained to me they (eBay) fine him if he takes too long to send .... and I was delayed the issue ... I had not put the note at the time of purchase, so I will receive now the system with Kali installed.

Can you do me a favour? Can you ask a seller for an email? I would like to arrange to get MX installed before I place an order. I think I will order two, this is great price!

Thanks @rokytnji.1 for alerting me about this item.

[Buck Fankers]

Partially off topic, @rokytnji.1 since you already got computer, is there any chance to upgrade internal SSD or whatever it is to bigger size? 32 would be perfect :-) It is probably non-replaceable, but asking just in case. Will order regardless, though.

[rokytnji.1]

It appears both ram and ssd are of the soldered in variety on this model. You do have the option of adding SD card storage not sure what is the largest supported size for that media but shouldn’t be hard to look into online. I keep a 32 gig usb drive in mine.

[keos]

@Buck Fankers,

You can be able to communicate with the seller when you are placing the order through a messaging section on eBay, there you can ask Randi, the seller, to install MXLinux for you, but anyway i think, as rokytnji.1 said, it is not going to be difficult with kali already installed ...
I have not received mine yet, I will let you know ....

[rokytnji.1]

Not kali any more. Better read the thread in case you run into the same problems I had running MX 21.

https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic ... -full-iso/

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harry@antix1:~
$ inxi -Fxz
System:
  Kernel: 5.10.153-antix.1-amd64-smp arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
    v: 10.2.1 Desktop: IceWM v: 3.2.0 Distro: antiX-22_x64-full Grup Yorum 18
    October 2022 base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: GOOGLE product: Candy v: 1.0
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: GOOGLE model: Candy v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI: coreboot v: MrChromebox-4.18.1 date: 10/27/2022
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 42.2 Wh (100.0%) condition: 42.2/44.5 Wh (94.9%)
    volts: 12.9 min: 11.4 model: Samsung DELL XK status: full
CPU:
  Info: dual core model: Intel Celeron N2840 bits: 64 type: MCP
    arch: Silvermont rev: 8 cache: L1: 112 KiB L2: 1024 KiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2292 high: 2459 min/max: 500/2582 cores: 1: 2459 2: 2125
    bogomips: 8666
  Flags: ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Graphics & Display
    driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0
  Device-2: Suyin Integrated_Webcam_HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo
    bus-ID: 1-3:4
  Display: server: X.Org v: 1.20.11 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
    unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: i965 gpu: i915 resolution: 1366x768~60Hz
  API: OpenGL v: 4.2 Mesa 20.3.5 renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics (BYT)
    direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series High Definition Audio
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
  Sound API: ALSA v: k5.10.153-antix.1-amd64-smp running: yes
  Sound Server-1: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: no
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Wireless 7260 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.0
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
    bus-ID: 1-4:6
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: down bt-service: running
    rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 44.65 GiB used: 20.7 GiB (46.4%)
  ID-1: /dev/mmcblk1 vendor: Hynix model: HAG2e size: 14.68 GiB
  ID-2: /dev/sda type: USB vendor: PNY model: USB 2.0 FD size: 29.97 GiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 13.36 GiB used: 7.09 GiB (53.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/mmcblk1p2
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 252 MiB used: 274 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/mmcblk1p1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 768 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
    dev: /dev/mmcblk1p3
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 41.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 140 Uptime: 22m Memory: 3.75 GiB used: 1.17 GiB (31.3%)
  Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 Packages: 1625 Shell: Bash
  v: 5.1.4 inxi: 3.3.23

[Buck Fankers]

It appears both ram and ssd are of the soldered in variety on this model. You do have the option of adding SD card storage...

I assumed so much :-)
Still good deal, thanks

[Buck Fankers]

You can be able to communicate with the seller when you are placing the order through a messaging section on eBay

That would be too late, sending msg when placing order.

Luckily, you can communicate with the seller (ask seller question) without placing order. I forgot you can, haven't used ebay for years. I send seller a msg, and asked to prepare two with MX for me. When they are ready, I will place an order. :-)

[keos]

Well thank you, I'm new to eBay, I'm always used to buying from Amazon, that's why I made the mistake ... I still don't understand their site very well, I have to check much better to see how to contact them before placing orders.

Anyway, I am supposed to receive the laptop this Tuesday. As soon as I see the issue I'll leave a note here about how it went with the change of the kali>MX installation, in case anybody ...

Regards.

[keos]

The Notebook arrived today, ahead of time!.

It was coming with Kali installed. I was considering not to install MX since Kali has Xfce4, but after an update and restart the system, kali broke down -- enough reason to me to start immediately the process to install MX-21 / Xfce4.

There was not much problem for me, except at the beginning ... i was going in circle trying to find the right way/option to boot with the USB into the BIOS... probably because i'm not fluent in english, till finally i found the 'how'.

The system is already installed and updated, it was all ... -- I'm writing now from the notebook!.

Good luck!!

[Buck Fankers]

The Notebook arrived today, ahead of time!.
The system is already installed and updated, it was all ... -- I'm writing now from the notebook!.

Good for you!

Update from my side. I asked seller, if he would install MX. He said he will. I ordered two in case one breaks soon, since they are old used devices.