Anyone install Salix on an HP Stream netbook?

[wally]

Hello all, I'm new to Salix and Slackware. I've been using Lubuntu and decided to start using a big boy Linux version. I bought an HP Stream 11 on sale last year. I need to install Salix but don't want to screw this up.
I got Salix on a thumb drive and started the install but the auto install only recognized 4 of the 32 GB on the hard drive. I can wipe the hard drive with cfdisk but thought I'd ask some questions first.
Anything I need to do before install?

Thanks,
wally

[mimosa]

I've done the same in the past with a different netbook. Does yours currently have Lubuntu? or are you meaning to put Linux on it for the first time (in the form of Salix)?

If you have a spare USB stick, I suggest putting Salix Live on it (please take a careful look at the instructions) both to use it as a diagnostic tool in this case, and so if needed you can use Gparted to adjust the partitions before installing Salix, if cfdisk makes you nervous (it does me).

But from Lubuntu (if you do have it installed on the netbook) you can already get some useful output in a terminal, such as

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sudo fdisk -l
cat /etc/fstab

... please post that and anything else useful you can think of.

[wally]

Windows 8 is the OS now. I will try the live Salix version first. Thanks mimosa.

[wally]

Salix won't work on HP Stream 11. Don't try install.

[westms]

Salix won't work on HP Stream 11. Don't try install.

Perhaps this guide can also be applied to a Salix installation:

Make the HP Stream 11 into a Linux Crapbook - Kevin Purdy
http://thepurdman.com/install-galliumos ... -stream-11

The author writes quite moody, but is, or therefore, an interesting reading.

[wally]

Westms and mimosa, you are both gentlemen and scholars. Westms the Galliumos install didn't work, but using the bios info I was able to install the live 64 bit version of lubuntu. I used a usb to ethernet adapter for a wired internet connection. After install and update I used lubuntu's driver update which downloaded the correct broadcom wifi driver. So no problem with wifi reception.

I wonder what it would take to make salix work on the little netbook.
Thanks for the help.

Wally

[westms]

Wally, thanks for the kind words!

I wonder what it would take to make salix work on the little netbook.

As you already wrote in your first message, you could start the installation process from a USB flash drive. You just did not continue because you've only seen 4 GB of free space from the entire 32 GB. I assume that the bulk of the mass storage was already occupied by the installed Windows.

Then you managed to install Lubuntu. You also wrote that you used the bios information, probably from the article, to which I linked. I guess you want to say that you've switched to legacy bios mode to install Lubuntu. This would mean that you could previously boot SalixLive in native EFI mode. So you can install SalixLive in native EFI mode or legacy bios mode.

If you had decided to delete the Windows installation, 32 GB of mass storage was available for Lubuntu installation. Maybe you backuped the Windows installation, so you can go back one day.

You can start with the Salix installation in the full installation mode immediately. During the installation, you can write the desired file system over the partition(s) on which is Lubuntu now. This makes Lubuntu history. If you have retained Windows, the remaining disk space will not be enough for an installation of Salix(Live)64 Xfce 14.2 in the full installation mode.

You will not need all installed packages. You can uninstall and then delete the superfluous ones. The installation will thus shrink considerably, so maybe a dual installation with Salix Xfce and Windows 8 is possible.

In order to show a possible solution for a dual installation and for dealing with pitfalls, I had linked to the aware article.

Good luck.