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[rborromeo at the5spot.com]

You need to get a USB hub and work the keyboard and bootable USB or 
CDROM to load the OS. It's pretty easy but there is no digitizer, wifi, 
video drivers for it

I got a Winbook T701 which I wish I hadn't because of the above

If you just bought it I would take it back and get an Asus as there is a 
larger Linux community around them.

I have a Dell 3000 2 in 1 that works out the box with Ubuntu. Everything 
works great but the keyboard it's a little twitchy unless you actually 
use it on a table but it's a low end Baytrail  machine so you can't 
expect much. WIth that being said it's a great Linux laptop.




On 3/7/2015 8:12 PM, Drew wrote:
> A bit of clarification: I'm trying two different approaches to getting
> Linux to run. The first, fallback position, involves running Vbox with
> the pre-installed Windows as the host. This approach is working well,
> and does not need to boot from the SD card and in fact shouldn't. It
> does boot the iso's of bootable CDs and DVDs.
>
> The other, preferred approach (as I don't trust Windows on the
> internet) (besides which, Ubuntu on the tablet looks pretty damn
> nice!) is to run Linux natively, off the SD card since space is at a
> premium on the internal hard drive. *This* is what is failing to boot.
>
> As far as whether I'm putting a valid bootable image on the SD card:
> I'm not sure about my first attempt, even though I got grub-install to
> run with what seemed to be an appropriate result for a UEFI system.
>
> But my second attempt was to put the SD card in a card reader and plug
> it into the USB socket, and run Rufus on it exactly as I did with the
> flash drive with the Ubuntu image. (Rufus can't access the SD slot
> itself.) BTW, it boots from this copy as well - provided it's in the
> USB slot. I need it booting (or at least running) from it in the SD
> slot, as I have other uses for the USB slot. This is what I'm only
> having partial success with.
>
> I have the boot order in my "BIOS" (actually a hacked 32 bit version
> of EFI) set as USB Flash, then SD card, then Windows. The idea being
> to boot a USB stick, to just put it in the slot (or in a hub), to boot
> Windows momentarily pop the SD card before letting the machine boot,
> and to boot Linux just turn it on. I can live with dedicating a flash
> drive to booting Linux if necessary. But I at least want write access
> to a piece of the SD card that Windows can also handle while I'm in
> Linux, as well as the USB slot free.
>
> Oh yes, one other thing might be useful: help in getting the touch
> screen working in Linux, or at least a clue as to what to apt-get
> install when I get this machine to in internet connection.
>
>
> On 3/7/15, Harry Burleson <hwburleson at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>>> * I have NOT, however, managed to get a linux system to boot from the
>>> SD card. The Linux install stalled out when it tried to run
>>> grub-install...
>>> I've managed to get the grub-install to run without
>>> errors by copying necessary files from the installed system to the
>>> running system; but it still does not produce a bootable SD card
>>> If I copy the files from the USB flash drive to the
>>> first partition on the SD card, making it a FAT32, and then boot the
>>> USB flash drive, it somehow comes up running the
>>> /casper/filesystem.squashfs *on the SD card*
>> First the obvious. Are you sure you have made a bootable image on the SD
>> card? Is there
>> another way to check if it boots from the card? A normal file copy won't
>> copy the
>> bootloader to the target device.
>>
>> Second is the SD card reader device set up as a bootable device in your
>> virtual machine?
>> Setting it up requires (in the command line) a combination of:
>>
>> $ vboxmanage storagectl ...
>>
>> $ vboxmanage storageattach ...
>>
>> https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/UserManual.html
>>
>> Chapter 8
>>
>> - Harry
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