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====== The old Laptop ====== | ====== The old Laptop ====== | ||
- | I dug an old laptop out of the garage (not used since 2014, it was old then). Which had a Firewire socket on it. I tried a copy of Debian, without luck. I tried a copy of Ubuntu without lick, I found a copy of Windows XP and installed that, still wouldn' | + | I dug an old laptop out of the garage (not used since 2014, it was old then). Which had a Firewire socket on it. I tried a copy of [[https:// |
Clearly there was an issue with the laptop, and I wasn't going to get anywhere with it. Back into storage for now. | Clearly there was an issue with the laptop, and I wasn't going to get anywhere with it. Back into storage for now. | ||
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The next issue was that the copy of Linux on it (Ubuntu 2016) didn't boot. I'd cannibalized the machine when I got a new one (disks and a few bits) and I presume the hardware configuration wasn't sufficiently consistent (I'd just taken out the graphics card to use the socket for my firewire card). I wasn't precious about the old OS, and I'd had a separate /home partition on the disk (the smartest move you can make if you are tempted to change linux distributions). It's much quicker to install a new OS than it is to try and work out why the old one doesn' | The next issue was that the copy of Linux on it (Ubuntu 2016) didn't boot. I'd cannibalized the machine when I got a new one (disks and a few bits) and I presume the hardware configuration wasn't sufficiently consistent (I'd just taken out the graphics card to use the socket for my firewire card). I wasn't precious about the old OS, and I'd had a separate /home partition on the disk (the smartest move you can make if you are tempted to change linux distributions). It's much quicker to install a new OS than it is to try and work out why the old one doesn' | ||
- | It turned out that the latest Debian and Ubuntu/ | + | It turned out that the latest Debian and Ubuntu/[[https:// |
So, now I have a PC, with a new firewire card, a freshly installed Lubuntu 18 LTS and the camera gear ready to go. I can now start following guides online, and start to use '' | So, now I have a PC, with a new firewire card, a freshly installed Lubuntu 18 LTS and the camera gear ready to go. I can now start following guides online, and start to use '' |