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- askbeehaw
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- askbeehaw
I am working on windows 10 currently. I was wondering if MX Linux could be installed directly from online. Thanks for taking the time to reply.
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Yes you can. However, if you are not familiar with systems administration then you will experience much more difficulty than just using the USB method.
Whatever you do, backup all of your important files and data from Windows before you attempt anything. To be extra safe create a Windows recovery USB.
After you have backed up important things then just read as much as you can regarding your OS of choice, like MX, and then try it. Having a second source of internet for any problems that may arise is recommended, like a smartphone.
And then try it. My first foray into Linux dealt me about a week of struggles before I got ot working. That was 20 years ago and thing have gotten better since then.
You will struggle at first. You may even fail a few times, but the feeling of accomplishment and the freedom of having an OS that allows you to do what you want and not what a corporation deems profitable is priceless. You will enjoy that feeling.
PXE / Net boot / install is a thing but that’s not really meant for Linux noobs. Often times it’s something IT departments do to install the same OS image on multiple systems on the same network (not just Linux, Windows and others can do this too). I’ve never attempted to do that over the internet so can’t say much else about that process.
Being this is linux4noobs I suspect you’re just talking about one system being installed, a regular USB install would be far more feasible in your use case. You’re kind of going straight into hard mode attempting more advanced types of installs.
What is the reason you want to do it specifically this way?
I think if you want a very easy solution, then this might actually be the answer you are looking for:
Get an USB stick. Then download the program called Unetbootin . Open the program. It has a list of all Linux distributions out there. I’d say choose Linux Mint. I’m using OpenSuSE Tumbleweed, and am very happy with it as well.
Then in the bottom of the Unetbootin screen, choose your USB stick and press the install button. After that reboot your computer from that USB stick and things will be rolling just fine! :)
You’ll be creating the USB stick with almost zero effort. It works and it’s easy.
Are you talking about a pendrive ?
I guess that’s the word, yes.
A thingy you plug into an USB port for saving files on it.
A pendrive is a pretty expensive item. Nevertheless, it’s probably the best method to install Linux.
New ones are something like 64 GB and do indeed cost some 8 € or so, but since you only need some 4 GB, you can find a used one for 0,50 € or so :)
It’s said that €5 isn’t a lot of money, but a standard pendrive wouldn’t come less than ₹700-800, and that’s a lot of money.
That’s what I guessed and decided to talk about the 8 € as big money. Because when I was living in Ukraine, where some people had a monthly salary of 70 €, it was indeed big money.
But anyway, you can get a used pendrive for 40 INR for sure. No need to pay 700 for a new one with 64 GB, if a used one with 4 GB suffices for your needs :)
Any pendrive doesn’t come less than INR600-700. Anyways, i found out one having 29.2 GB of free space.
If i download a windows version of unetbootin, i can use it on my current windows 10 laptop ?
Yes.
:3
1st step:
2nd step:
3rd step:
4th step:
Ta-da!
;D
Now your MX Linux, installed “directly” online, also has gentoo and bedrocklinux capabilities too. ;)
More “sane”(?) methods may exist, but just for breadth-of-possibilities and whimsy, I offered this alternative route. ;)
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Do you want to run specific apps, or see what the desktop UI looks like?
I want MX Linux as the heart of all my work.
I’d just download an iso, carefully
ddit to a small USB pendrive, boot into it, run the installer, installing to the main drive (or another larger usb). I wonder… many ways one could accomplish this with help of a virtual machine intermediary stage.
Back on the day, I was able to coerce the Windows bootloader into chainloading GRUB, which then launched a netboot kernel and initrd for Ubuntu that contained the CLI installer. I don’t know if that’s still possible, but I only needed one hard drive for it and it worked great until the laptop sadly melted itself to death several years later (it had a desktop P4 in a 14-inch laptop chassis, so I was surprised it took that long to die).
Its not something I would want to do because if something goes wrong I want the physical media to boot off of regardless of its a cd or usb device.
