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