DietPi in Acer C720 Chromebook

General Discussion
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hello, I have an acer c720 chromebook with only 2G of ram, with no possibility of expansion and onboard SSD.
https://www.chromebookspecs.com/acer-c720-chromebook-32gb
not to mention the little memory, it is a great machine, I have had it for years and it is very durable, including the battery.
I would like to know if there is a step by step to install the dietpi in it. currently it is with the solus OS, but it is slow, because of the memory.
I remember that when I tried to install another debian distro I had problems with the touchpad, which did not happen with solusOS.
I recorded a pendrive with debian LXDE and managed to access it in liveUSB mode, but as I expected the touchpad had problems, although this time it worked, only the “click” function was missing.

I thank you in advance and please forgive my weak English.

PS: I forgot to say that I already installed the dietpi in one rpi4 and two rpi zero, so I have some familiarity with the system, although I am very limited technically speaking.
thanks again

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Hi,

many thanks for your request. Basically the base of DietPi is a Debian image. There you would need to get a Debian image running. Once done you could try to setup DietPi on top.

https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/issues/1285

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hello, thanks for the solution!
I would like more help, if possible. Does this script work on ubuntu systems? I have a c710, older than this c720, and has been running galliumOS for a long time. Ubuntu is “related” to debian, so I thought about that.

Thank you again.

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No it’s not working with Ubuntu. You need Debian for this.

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Hi, you need to remove the write protection screw inside the Acer C720 Chromebook, update the firmware from the website https://mrchromebox.tech/.
After that you can install Linux (DietPi) on your Chromebook.
On the website from mrchromebox is a manual how to change the firmware.

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this is nice, but very old → even me as absolute beginner can see that this script might not work properly:

apt-get died… 5 years ago?

here is the output from the first lines:

karl@chrombox:~$ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MichaIng/DietPi/master/PREP_SYSTEM_FOR_DIETPI.sh -O PREP_SYSTEM_FOR_DIETPI.sh
#wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MichaIng/DietPi/jessie-support/PREP_SYSTEM_FOR_DIETPI.sh -O PREP_SYSTEM_FOR_DIETPI.sh
#wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MichaIng/DietPi/beta/PREP_SYSTEM_FOR_DIETPI.sh -O PREP_SYSTEM_FOR_DIETPI.sh
#wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MichaIng/DietPi/dev/PREP_SYSTEM_FOR_DIETPI.sh -O PREP_SYSTEM_FOR_DIETPI.sh
chmod +x PREP_SYSTEM_FOR_DIETPI.sh
./PREP_SYSTEM_FOR_DIETPI.sh
--2023-12-07 16:20:36--  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MichaIng/DietPi/master/PREP_SYSTEM_FOR_DIETPI.sh
Auflösen des Hostnamens raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com)… 185.199.108.133, 185.199.110.133, 185.199.111.133, ...
Verbindungsaufbau zu raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com)|185.199.108.133|:443 … verbunden.
HTTP-Anforderung gesendet, auf Antwort wird gewartet … 404 Not Found
2023-12-07 16:20:36 FEHLER 404: Not Found.

but… I mastered to install Debian… a first step for today

perhaps withon the next view days I can organize to install DietPi
many thanks
Karl

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Where do you get this from? Any references.

Location of script change. See our docs Supported hardware - DietPi.com Docs

We don’t guarantee the script working on each and every platform/ device. It’s an option for boards we don’t support officially