Installing slackware on Asus Vivobook E210M
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hello everyone,
I recently was given an ASUS Vivobook E210M which came with its own preinstalled windows 11.
No Biggies, i thought, as in the past! Wipe it out of your life and install the world's best linux distro: slackware.
1st obstacle: the boot order in the BIOS would not recognize my external usb dvd-rom; OK, maybe it's too old for these new ultralight toys. So i passed the entire extracted slackware.iso to USB and continue!
2nd obstacle: the ASUS would not recognize the USB in the boot order either. After some research I was led to believe that the VivoBook bios only see FAT32 systems. OK, no problems! Let's restart the process. Format the USB flash drive to FAT32, recopy the slackware install files and try again.
Great! Now the BIOS sees it and I can go on with the installation.
3rd obstacle: cfdisk sees only the /dev//sda of the USB drive. No other disk space and/or partitions are read by cfdisk. Now i was bewildered! I run lsblk and saw the /dev/sda disk (the USB drive) and a bunch of:
mmcblk0,
mmcblk01
mmcblk02
mmcblk03
mmcblk04
mmcblk0boot0,
mmcblk0boot1,
zram0
So, back on the net researching... those ultra-slim laptops use the new M.2 SSD which I thought would explain the strange blk_name however I could not find anywhere how to wipe it and have an empty drive where i can install whatever OS i wish (and not being forced to have microsoft under-my-skin).
I have tried to delete the main mmcblk0 partitions (mmcblk01-02-03-04, where windows was installed) using 'parted' but i still can't get rid of the others and can't get cfdisk to see the internal drive.
I feel like being back in the late '90s where I have to learn how to partition a disk before successfully installing linux.
does anyone have any suggestions on how I can install slackware on a M.2 SSd drive?
Thank you in advance
I recently was given an ASUS Vivobook E210M which came with its own preinstalled windows 11.
No Biggies, i thought, as in the past! Wipe it out of your life and install the world's best linux distro: slackware.
1st obstacle: the boot order in the BIOS would not recognize my external usb dvd-rom; OK, maybe it's too old for these new ultralight toys. So i passed the entire extracted slackware.iso to USB and continue!
2nd obstacle: the ASUS would not recognize the USB in the boot order either. After some research I was led to believe that the VivoBook bios only see FAT32 systems. OK, no problems! Let's restart the process. Format the USB flash drive to FAT32, recopy the slackware install files and try again.
Great! Now the BIOS sees it and I can go on with the installation.
3rd obstacle: cfdisk sees only the /dev//sda of the USB drive. No other disk space and/or partitions are read by cfdisk. Now i was bewildered! I run lsblk and saw the /dev/sda disk (the USB drive) and a bunch of:
mmcblk0,
mmcblk01
mmcblk02
mmcblk03
mmcblk04
mmcblk0boot0,
mmcblk0boot1,
zram0
So, back on the net researching... those ultra-slim laptops use the new M.2 SSD which I thought would explain the strange blk_name however I could not find anywhere how to wipe it and have an empty drive where i can install whatever OS i wish (and not being forced to have microsoft under-my-skin).
I have tried to delete the main mmcblk0 partitions (mmcblk01-02-03-04, where windows was installed) using 'parted' but i still can't get rid of the others and can't get cfdisk to see the internal drive.
I feel like being back in the late '90s where I have to learn how to partition a disk before successfully installing linux.
does anyone have any suggestions on how I can install slackware on a M.2 SSd drive?
Thank you in advance