I discovered how to successfully install Linux in an old HP Celeron Chromebook (that was given to me) by entering Developer Mode and running crouton. It was my first experience to learn about chroot and worked smoothly. Unfortunately, crouton only has Ubuntu, Debian, and Kali distros to choose from. I chose Debian but what I really want is my beloved Slackware. I've always installed Slackware using fdisk or cfdisk on PCs and it is easy to overwrite any existing partition that way and even dual-boot.

Might it be possible to simply overwrite the Chromebook's chroot Debian installation (as it would be on a PC drive) with Slackware? I imagine it would entail a bash script like crouton tailored for Slackware Linux. I don't know where to start to try it and I presume the biggest difficulty would be getting Chrom OS to accept a Slackware ISO on USB stick and run its installation scripts on the chroot "partition."

I run antiX on a Dell II chromebook.

So slackware is doable.

Just forget about using crouton . Google Mr Chromebox instead.

Here is a cheap deal that will run slackware
Shotgun Link

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Thank you for sharing that information!

Just thought I'd post that I got a Dell Chromebook 11 (3120) that I got on eBay for $32 converted to straight Slackware using mrchromebox to flash the firmware to UEFI. Of course I had to trim Slackware 15.0 down a little bit to fit it all on the 16GB SSD--just lots of apps that I don't want to use. It works great and using mrchromebox was a great tip that I appreciate!

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