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Struggling to install

Hello, I thank you for taking the time to read this e-mail. I hope this is the correct place to send this.

I have been struggling to get a Linux distro installed onto my Tablet, however it is an older tablet, and the only options I have come across in my research is Debian armhf, or Arch Linux armhf/arm7.

My tablet is an older Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 7" T230-NU. The tablet is rooted, and USB debug is active. I am attempting to install from a Windows 10 PC. I am unfamiliar with Linux and have been looking to not only upgrade my Tablet's software, as most everything on it is failing; browsers, apps, Google play, due to its age and out of date software/firmware, but also to learn how to use Linux. Linux I feel is superior to Windows in many ways, but I cannot afford my own PC at this time, nor can I afford a new Tablet, so I am trying to compromise and install Linux onto my Tablet and learn to use it on there.

I have read, and I understand that this model of Tablet is not only old, but difficult to work with due to its chipset.

The problems I am encountering are thus:

  1. Tablet does not support OTG adapters, which prevents me from an easy USB install.

  2. I have attempted to use ADB and TWRP to install directly from the Tablet's interior SD card (only 1GB), but TWRP only flashes .zip files.

  3. I cannot find any linux distribution in .zip file format, which leaves me unable to flash using TWRP.

  4. I have attempted to extract the Debian 12.11.0 armhf netinstall .iso in order to repackage it into a .zip file, but when I flash it, it fails to flash with an error stating "invalid .zip format." 

    From my research, apparently I am not compiling the .zip file properly, as it requires a "META-INF" folder with scripts in it. I am not a programmer or a scripter, and I do not have the experience or knowledge necessary to create a proper .zip file with required scripts to successfully flash Debian onto my Tablet.

    I was wondering if you would be willing to help me somehow. I cannot find any optional .zip file download of Debian on the website, even though my searchbar AI states there should be. (I don't trust AI anyway...)

    Would it be possible, and would you be willing, to compile a .zip file that makes it possible for me to flash Debian onto my Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 7" T230NU using TWRP?

    Thank you so much for any assistance you can provide. God Bless.



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