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I am working on windows 10 currently. I was wondering if MX Linux could be installed directly from online. Thanks for taking the time to reply.

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Back on the day, I was able to coerce the Windows bootloader into chainloading GRUB, which then launched a netboot kernel and initrd for Ubuntu that contained the CLI installer. I don't know if that's still possible, but I only needed one hard drive for it and it worked great until the laptop sadly melted itself to death several years later (it had a desktop P4 in a 14-inch laptop chassis, so I was surprised it took that long to die).