Ok, so I'm trying to get into this and have two laptops and a desktop I just Frankenstein'd together. How do I go about making a thumb drive installer? I have access to the interwebs from my phone... both laptops have busted wifi cards and the desktop will likely freak if turned on cause it's windows 8.1 or something and totally new hardware not to mention I think both hard drives I hooked up probably have windows on them but likely not the same versions.
Connect your phone via USB and share the connection, on Android that's the USB Tethering setting. That'll allow you to download balena and the ISO of your choice.