Monday, January 7, 2019

Putting Kali on a Viliv S5

Ok, background time. So the Viliv S5 is a UMPC from the early 2000's. It runs Windows XP 2003 Home Edition. It's got one of those 32 bit atom processors in it. My mission is to get Kali Linux running on it. You'd think this would be an easy task, it being x86 based and all, but apparently the device has some peculiarities, including.

  • Wifi Chip off by default because of how the SDIO is handled
  • 3G modem hooked up to a TV antenna, really janky Chinese construction
  • Touchscreen is PS2 based with a weird protocol governing it and no official linux drivers
  • One USB port that is turned on by default and bootable, one USB mini port that may be turned off by default
  • Looks like it has a nice PCI-E slot, but I'm not sure it's on by default either

So based on this information, my priorities will be to figure out how much of the 23GB windows has afforded to it is actually necessary and how far it can be shrunk, get GParted booted and change that up, get kali installed and Grub fixed, and get all of the peripherals working so I don't have to take up space on my one USB drive. Here are some tantalizing images of the device's ports and it running linux, apologies for not formatting them first, they'll be in a proper post later.



                         - Elias Augusto

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