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Hi, I have an Inspiron 3168 laptop with 32gb eMMC. For some reason, the antiX core 17.2 x64 cli-installer refuses to allow me to install it onto the eMMC, the device itself appears as mmcblk0 and it’s partitions appear as mmcblk0p1, mmcblk0p2 and so on. I have ran dd for a few seconds to essentially break what was on the eMMC to start anew and then used cfdisk to set the table as GPT and made 2 partitions (a 100mb efi partition, and the rest of the storage for a linux filesystem partition), i then formatted these partitions to fat32 and ext4 (using mkfs.vfat -F 32 and mkfs.ext4). When I run the cli-installer and try to select mmcblk0p2 as the root partition, it tells me it is invalid (as pictured in the attatchment). Is there anyway around this to get it to install on the eMMC? Thanks!
If you have, what I suppose you have — DON’T bother, it’s not worth the effort.
https://laptopmedia.com/laptop-specs/dell-inspiron-3168/
When booting many Dell machines with integrated SD Card Reader, you’ll often notice some “… mmc0* … you might experience problems …” warning / error message.
What you have is basically an integrated Card Reader with a small SD-Card attached, instead of proper HDD / SSD and you’re missing the Linux driver for it.
My solution in your case would be:
1. Boot any Live OS that you can boot and which has GParted and delete all partitions on your eMMC. Create one single, primary FAT32 partition.
2. Go and get yourself a small USB-Stick (Pendrive / Flash Drive) like these (great shape — doesn’t hang, has no sharp corners …):
https://www.transcend-info.com/Products/No-849
https://www.transcend-info.com/Products/No-620
https://www.transcend-info.com/Products/No-4973. Install antiX as Live USB with persistence.
4. Use your FAT32 eMMC as “Data Partition” or even better — not at all.
You might be able to get it working after all but, with lot of sweat and tears and it’s just not worth the effort on such small and slow storage with very limited life expectancy.
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