Well I have blown most of the day trying to get things going. Linux seems to be constantly changing. I have gone through the install many times today and hit a brick wall. First problem was getting the bios so it would see the hard drive after reboot, on this Dell it must be in legacy. I did get it to do the install for MX and boot fine after that. But down where update and upgrade section. See attached screen shot, it could not fine the files to upload. Also if you remove the USB stick before the install shuts down it will not shutdown on it own. I keep getting the goal posts being moved.
What is bad is I talked a guy into going the linuxcnc way and I am unable to get my own table controller back running again. It ran fine with axis for router work but plasma (QTPlasmaC) had glitches, so I looked for another version. sorry for the whining ): ):