Pimping the mini-lathe

Getting Odroids normally requires a trip to the docter.

I tried that Mint Distro you linked to, but it uses the same Debian Install wigdet, and also gets hung up on looking for a CD drive which is non existant.

It shouldn't be no other USB ports in use, as two others are (keyboard and mouse).
The Bios provides no options under the SATA menu. It just lists the hard drive attached to SATA.

I then pulled the hard drive off the MAHO's ITX PC, and tried to install there, but the same problem occurs. Cant get past it trying to mount a non existant CD drive.

There were also some references here to opening a terminal and mounting the the USB as CDRom manually. It says to open a shell window with Alt + Fnum, but I tried all combinations of function numbers it didn't get a shell.
unix.stackexchange.com/questions/170069/...m-not-being-detected

I tried burning the ISO in DD mode with Rufus...
Once it got to the CD issue, I tried Alt-F2 like in this thread. Nothing.
askubuntu.com/questions/671159/bootable-usb-needs-cd-rom


Does anyone know of a Preempt ISO which doesn't use that Debian installer?

Take some pictures of the USB stuff in BIOS.
There should be an option for some kind of emulation, it seems that is off.

Mark, if you go to the linux.org site and onto downloads page, there is a link to the stretch ISO. Did you try that?
www.linuxcnc.org/testing-stretch-rtpreempt/
grab the amd64.iso

But re using mint, I was using one of these from Mint that I had lying around from ages ago.
www.linuxmint.com/release.php?id=36

And I just ran Tommy's script.

That Stretch 64 Iso was the first one I tried.
Thanks for the link to Mint. I'll try that.

Do not use the Cinnamon edition, it might have issues with RT kernels and graphics.
Use Mate of XFCE.