last version of Trisquel

Installing from the ISO on https://trisquel.info/download will be certainly faster than upgrading three times. You can keep the user files (that you should backup anyway before the installation!) : https://trisquel.info/forum/no-internet-connection-after-reboot-trisquel-110#comment-172547

Hello. Not sure if this is the place to talk about older machines.

I recently bought a used HP ProBook 4530s with Windows10 on it to replace an asus E402M whose motherboard died unexpectedly while running an incrementally upgraded Trisquel10 alongside an original Windows8 installation that came with it. I resized Windows on both machines adding new / and /home partitions.

Thanks to a third party boot-repair tool fron the Ubuntu forums I downloaded and executed during repeated Trisquel 10 live sessions I am back here now with my HP ProBook running Trisquel8 because each Trisquel10 installation attempt failed on it due to a lost bootloader in the outcome.

As a last resort I had tried and succeeded installing Trisquel 8 here despite its end of life in April of 2021. It will not update or upgrade now. There is a way to change the /etc/apt/sources.list for Ubuntu users but this does not apply for Trisquel users.

I recently bought a newer and expensive used HP EliteBook. The Trisquel 10 installation succeeded only after wiping Windows away. Without a free Wi-Fi driver and no hardware ethernet port it has no access to the internet.

How to install a newer Trisquel release on this older computer which works and seems to have the necessary system requirements?

Thank you in advance for any suggestions!

Thanks ARK74 for the assistance!

I obtained two USB-ethernet adapters from a real store. The slicker multi-port adapter heats up and wastes power. The economy adapter deprives me of the only available USB port. Wireless is a bad alternative as a sole choice offered by HP on an elite laptop. My asus cheapie was just as thin and had a real working ethernet connection jack.

As for the older Probook 4530s. I am here on it running a live Aramo session using ethernet by choice. I installed Aramo and unlike Trisquel10 it gave me no indication of an impending failure about grub and the boot device when prompted to reboot.

All seemingly plausible attempts with Ubuntu's boot-repair now led me nowhere. The system stubbornly is without a boot device on startup. Access to the BIOS menu is ignored and a visit at HP's virtual assistant doesn't understand there is no way to reset the BIOS settings. Would having deleted signed stuff in the BIOS still have allowed me to install Trisquel8 with a working grub menu thereafter?

Fortunately, I haven't lost the USB boot! How easily can I keep configuration changes and what is needed to make downloaded packages such as gphoto2, jmtpfs, remain accessible from a live session which I am now stuck with using for the foreseeable future?

1. Update about latest version of Trisquel:
Lost is the ability to select all when selecting all in the bash Terminal Window edit menu. Up to and including release 10, it was possible to copy and paste all 511 of the default number of text lines (always without color) in a bash terminal session for record keeping purposes. Now only the last portion gets highlighted regardless of scrollback position. How to get this back?

2. Update about the HP ProBook 4530s: It was possible to enter the BIOS setup but required an extraordinary amount of repeated F10 key presses. Once inside the BIOS setup, the HP computer has 3 variants for many parameters: change, visible, hide. Once switching from "visible" to "change", then going back to a higher level menu I could find and re-enable UEFI for the USB boot device, despite warnings by the HP BIOS system not to try that: It ultimately allowed a bootloader to launch the ARAMOS installation, which after a live boot-repair session had given me the message that it was necessary to disable the legacy USB boot (without UEFI). Potentially useful information :-)