[cosmarchy]

Hi,

I have an old HP TC1000 tablet I thought I might install Kodi on rather than throw it in the bin.

It is of the i586 vintage and have discovered a distro here https://slackware.pkgs.org/14.2/slackel-...j.txz.html
I decided to give this a try as I believe the i586 architecture is unsupported, at least in most modern versions of linux?

My trouble extends from the fact I have to use a usb stick to install to this device as there is no dvd drive etc. I don't want to run from a usb stick but install from it to the TC1000 internal hard disk.
The distro mentioned above is installed from a linux OS which the TC1000 does not have. I was hoping there was a version out there which I can install on the hardware much like you do when you install on a raspberry PI - you just install to the SD card and away you go.

I realise this is is 'old' hardware,but am I wasting my time here? Is there a way to install to this device from a usb stick without having to install a version of linux first.

Thanks

[wsnipex]

you're most likely wasting your time.

[William Seward]

Won"t hurt to try. If it has a "boot from usb" function it doesnt need any os on the hard drive beforehand. At least that's my experience. No idea if it will run, but try it out.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G890A

[fritsch]

It's a crusoe CPU - I don't even think you will get kodi's GUI rendered in a timely manner ...

[speedwell68]

I am all for re-purposing old hardware, but I think Kodi on this is a non-starter. If you could get it to run you'd be limited by it's 11Mb/s Wifi and the lack of ram.

[cosmarchy]

Won"t hurt to try. If it has a "boot from usb" function it doesnt need any os on the hard drive beforehand. At least that's my experience. No idea if it will run, but try it out.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G890A

Ah, here is my problem.  How do I take the txz and extract this on to the usb so that it will boot  I think I'll give it a go if I can figure out how to get it to boot from the usb.

Even if this doesn't work on this device, I'd have at least learnt how to to do this for other devices too!!

Thanks

[bubblegum57]

Won"t hurt to try. If it has a "boot from usb" function it doesnt need any os on the hard drive beforehand. At least that's my experience. No idea if it will run, but try it out.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G890A

Ah, here is my problem.  How do I take the txz and extract this on to the usb so that it will boot  I think I'll give it a go if I can figure out how to get it to boot from the usb.

Even if this doesn't work on this device, I'd have at least learnt how to to do this for other devices too!!

Thanks

You could try using rufus to create a bootable usb. I use it to create a Libreelec image on a usb. select dd from the drop down https://rufus.akeo.ie

Also, you could try the Libreelec creator,  https://libreelec.tv/downloads/   

Or, https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multi...b-creator/

[cosmarchy]

You could try using rufus to create a bootable usb. I use it to create a Libreelec image on a usb. select dd from the drop down https://rufus.akeo.ie

Also, you could try the Libreelec creator,  https://libreelec.tv/downloads/   

Or, https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multi...b-creator/

Had a look at these and they all seemed to want iso of img, and not tar's unless I'm missing something.

A search of google only seems to show how to do this on a linux machine - which I currently don't have

[yasij]

You could try using rufus to create a bootable usb. I use it to create a Libreelec image on a usb. select dd from the drop down https://rufus.akeo.ie

Also, you could try the Libreelec creator,  https://libreelec.tv/downloads/   

Or, https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multi...b-creator/

Had a look at these and they all seemed to want iso of img, and not tar's unless I'm missing something.

A search of google only seems to show how to do this on a linux machine - which I currently don't have

That tarball is just a software package of kodi, not a bootable OS. Slackware packages are tarballs. That one looks like it's from Slackel which is based on Slackware. You'd have to download the iso image of slackel. You are almost certainly wasting your time with that Crusoe machine though.

[speedwell68]

Can you post a link to the tarball you have downloaded?

[bubblegum57]

As I said, download rufus to a windows pc, it's exe. from the drop down, select dd (where it says iso) you will then see the gz.img that is a full image, gz? are not the full package