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<font size="+1">Many Linux downloads offer the option to 'install'
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/17/20 1:29 PM, Spencer Yost wrote:<br>
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<span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">It’s
been so long since my machines have had a CD-RW drive I forget
the folks still have them :-) </span>Since you have a CD-RW you
can burn a bootable CD also. For you that might even be better
than messing with a stick that may or may not work.
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<div>Another note. At first you’ll just want to burn a “live” CD
(the OS runs off the CD) rather than an installation disk(will
try to install rather than run). Linux is generally MUCH faster
than windows but you may notice some performance concerns since
you will be running off a CD. After you play around and are
comfortable you can then create an installation CD and try your
hand at a dual boot machine(if you have enough disc space).</div>
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<blockquote type="cite">On Feb 17, 2020, at 10:03 AM, Stephen
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<div dir="ltr">OK, I've got the laptop on my desk now. I
had the model wrong. Actually a Dell Precision M4400.
Vintage 2009 unchanged ;-)
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<div>F12 Boot options:
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<div>But it appears that maybe it will boot from USB.
Not sure on that, but here's an observation: when a
thumb drive (non-bootable) is plugged in prior to
power-up, this prevents booting from the internal hard
drive. It just sits there, locked, with some ROM info
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<div>Now that I'm this far, I should probably download a
Linux flavor onto USB and see what happens next.</div>
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9:22 AM Indiana Robinson <<a
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<div>"I've got a Dell from about 2009 or so, perhaps a
3000-series (?), running XP. At the time it was a
workstation-class laptop, capable of running 3D CAD
software. I don't use it much anymore, but it
definitely comes in handy sometimes. Nothing
important is stored on it. Hard drive has given me
a few scares over the last several years, but it
comes back every time (on it's own; I have not done
anything heroic). This bootable thumb drive thing
is intriguing because you don't need any hard drive
at all with it. In your scenario, with the hidden
partition, you still need a functional hard drive.
Plus, there's been enough discussion of Linux here
on ATIS (and elsewhere) that I'm curious.</div>
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<div>One of the advantages of Linux is that you don't
have to put a half zillion hours on your old hard
drive cranking and chomping seemingly forever doing
defrags on it. The Linux file system makes it
generally unnecessary. Only geeks and crazy people
ever defrag a Linux hard drive. :-) Now if you
dual boot with Windows you probably need to defrag
the Windows partition with Windows but it's been a
very long time since I ran a dual boot setup and I
have forgotten.</div>
<div>Since it is a Dell it might have a USB boot
option in the BIOS at that vintage but you will need
to check.</div>
<div>I guess you could do the same thing with a good
sized SD card... I've never tried that. I keep a
good sized micro SD card in our phones for storage.<br>
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<div>Old tractor reference:</div>
<div>I am currently testing and installing Linux in
several "OLD" boxes (picked up at yard sales or
freebies) trying to pick one to install in a
heated/cooled cabinet in the farm shop so I have a
bigger screen available to look up tractor details
instead of chasing glasses to read my phone. :-)</div>
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