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| ====== The old Laptop ====== | ====== The old Laptop ====== | ||
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| 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:// | 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:// | ||
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| ====== The old Desktop ====== | ====== The old Desktop ====== | ||
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| I got an old PC out of the garage (last used in 2015, somewhat newer than the laptop). Found that it too had a graphics card and a network card using its slots... Oh well, I can use the onboard graphics, I'm not editing videos on it and I'm not playing games. | I got an old PC out of the garage (last used in 2015, somewhat newer than the laptop). Found that it too had a graphics card and a network card using its slots... Oh well, I can use the onboard graphics, I'm not editing videos on it and I'm not playing games. | ||
| The machine was a bit dirty and dusty, when I tried to start it up it beeped at me repeatedly, and did nothing else (blank screen, no POST or BIOS screens). After checking the manual, it said this beeping pattern was a power issue, I fortunately cleaned around the PSU, connections and fans. When I plugged it back in, it all seemed to work happily! Result. | The machine was a bit dirty and dusty, when I tried to start it up it beeped at me repeatedly, and did nothing else (blank screen, no POST or BIOS screens). After checking the manual, it said this beeping pattern was a power issue, I fortunately cleaned around the PSU, connections and fans. When I plugged it back in, it all seemed to work happily! Result. | ||
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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' | ||
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| ====== Filenames ====== | ====== Filenames ====== | ||