Hello.
Once again trying to install the current Slackware on a laptop with a 32-bit z3775. The installation system does not see disk partitions (internal emmc) with gpt markup. Although, when you go to the TARGET menu, the EFI section is determined immediately. But in the console, all the partitions of the disk are perfectly visible.

First of all, welcome to the forum. I hope I can help, at least a little.

Please share more information on this laptop, make, model. Intel describes this cpu chip as 64 bit. 32 bit OS's are being dropped quickly, so if it is 64 bit, why not run a 64 bit system?

eMCC drives have been supported for some time. Please tell us exactly what .iso you have been trying to install.

The BIOS/UEFI. These are two different animals. The CPU is 2014 vintage, there were some uefi systems around then, but mainly bios. Are you sure this is a UEFI system?

Not sure what you mean by this. Can you tell us what tools you used to partition the emcc drive.

An efi partition needs to be formatted with fat32 file system, and flagged as an esp partition. Is this the case?

With more information we may be able to help.

As camorri mentioned, the Intel Z3775 processor is a 64bit processor.

If you're having issues seeing partitions in the installer, have you verified the partitions are set to the right partition type? The installer only supports the "Linux filesystem" partition type. It doesn't support things like "Linux root (x86-64)" or "Linux home" for the root partition. Can you check the partition types using something like fdisk -l /dev/sda and verify your root partition is listed as "Linux filesystem"?

I have a platform x86 32-bit

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Can you tell us what .iso you are trying to install? Without changing the partitions, you need to install in EFI mode, and the boot loader will have to be elilo or grub.

Make sure secure boot is off in the UEFI system. You do not need CSM mode.

First partition is your efi partition, which you need. Partitions 2 and 4 are small swap partitions. That is OK, not sure why you have 2.

Partition 3 looks just big enough for a full install. It will be tight when you start adding more programs.

Partition 5 is fine for /home.

packages /home/slackware from https://ftp.heanet...rent-18_May_2021-DVD.iso

secure boot is off

How did you make the DVD? Does it boot normally? Did you do a md5sum check on the file?

Please give some details what happens when you try to install. Errors? if yes, post them.

It is difficult at first to deal with all the intricacies of configuration during installation.
Is it possible to somehow install all device drivers at this stage (right in the console) to exclude the reason for not recognizing the internal emmc gpt partitions by the setup from the hardware?
Can setup scripts be modified?
And how to install the system without setup?

If you are new to linux, and this is your first attempt to install Slackware, I understand. We have all been there.

Not to the best of my knowledge. Let me explain. The installation media should boot the system, it will, if you have a basic system that is functiuonal. ( not broken ). Device drivers in linux they will be loaded by the kernel during install. To be clear, this is the kernel on the installer media.

Please take a few minutes and look at this link -->http://docs.slackware.com/slackware:install

Under the heading Booting The Installer, you will see a screen shot. Do you see this image? The image there is for 64 bit system, 32 bit installer will look very similar.

If you can not get this image, something besides the emcc is giving you problems. You don't need a hard drive of any kind to get this far.

Some more questions, have you formatted any of the partitions? The efi partition has to be Fat32, also know as VFAT in linux. It is recommended you use ext4 file system for the root partition, and home partition. Swap has its own file system. The install media can be used to do this.

I'm sure they can. It would not be easy though, you would need a lot of knowledge to do so. What you get on the install media has been tested over and over for many years by many users. They work.

The other way, is to download one of Alienbob's current live iso's. They will boot working hardware ( you don't need a hard drive ) and you can run Slackware without installing to a HD. There is a way Alienbob had documented to install current from the live media.

Understand, current is the development branch of Slackware, that will become the next release; when its ready. Right now current is very stable, however, it takes some experience to update it. Adding other programs is not as easy as it is with 14.2.

See this link for more information on Live Slackware. -->http://docs.slackware.com/slackware:liveslak

Hope this helps.

Please post the make and model of this PC. Is it a Chromebook by any chance?

t200ta-cp001h 2014 08

Somehow also watched, in Slackware14.2 and, I remember, in current4.14.69, the gpt emmc partitions were still visible in setup on this platform, but now I'm trying - the gpt emmc partitions in setup are no longer visible. But now the installation is better.

You did not say who the manufacturer is. I asked for the make. I did a search on what you posted in post #11, and found this .pdf -->http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/...09_E9159_D.pdf

Is this the device?

From post #12, are you telling us you had Slackware 14.2 installed on this system?

If this is correct, then the BIOS of this system is not UEFI. Before we go further, we need to understand if this is a BIOS machine that was designed for a MBR ( master boot record ) or UEFI designed for a EFI partition.

The 2014 date puts it in a time of transition.

Yes

There was no system installation then, but the slackware14.2 setup recognizes emmc gpt partitions.

Probably yes, but also with UEFI support (UEFI Firmware v2.31 is present).

This system was shipped originally with windows 8.1 according to the documantation. As far as I know, Win8 requires UEFI. It may be possible to install it without UEFI, however, I do not know that for sure.

Since you seem to have partitioning on the emcc, could you boot up the system with the installer and run the command as root gdisk -l /dev/sda and post the results.

The drive may not be called sda, so substitute the correct name for sda. What I want to see, is if the efi partition is set up correctly or not. Here is what it looks like when it is correct.

Note the code column, we need the EF00 in that column. It needs to be formatted as fat32 also.