Arch Linux on Jumper Ezbook 3s

Installing archlinux on a sdcard to test linux stability on this cheap notebok

I bought a cheap laptop from china: Ezbook 3S.

It features a nice 14” display, a slow but usable Intel Apollo Lake N3450, 6Gb of ram and a 256Gb SSD.

I want to try Arch Linux on an external usb drive, just to make a few test before committing to the full wipe of Windows 10 Home. Reports from other users says that wifi is working with an alternate driver but no bluetooth. Other periferals should work just fine.

I also tried to install on a SD card but rEFInd is not able to detect the card controller.

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