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Author: Stephen Partington
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Subject: Re: Building a Linux Computer?
https://superuser.com/questions/1050894/dd-clone-hd-to-ssd?utm_medium=organic&utm_source=google_rich_qa&utm_campaign=google_rich_qa

On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 4:11 PM, Eric Oyen <> wrote:

> well, my issue just now is two fold:
> 1. I don't have the right tools
> 2. my place is a mess (don't ask, I am too embarrassed to have anyone
> inside and the room mates are just as disabled, which means that some kinds
> of work needed to be done around here isn't happening).
>
> anyway, about all I need to do is DD the old drive onto the new drive and
> then install it. Not too hard with an external data port, power lead and a
> Vinux usb stick.
>
> -eric
> On May 24, 2018, at 8:54 AM, Stephen Partington wrote:
>
> I can get access to an iFixit kit. they are immensely handy in working on
> a laptop.
>
> On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 7:37 PM, Eric Oyen <> wrote:
>
>> well,
>> I just acquired a 250 GB SSD and I have a dell latitude laptop (vintage
>> 2013). I know what panel to remove to gain access to the HDD and ram, but
>> my fingers aren't sufficient to find all the necessary bits to remove so
>> that I can install the new drive.
>>
>> anyone willing to help?
>>
>> I am thinking of running it concurrent to the old style HDD in there (or
>> at least until I can order a second one and have a dual boot SSD setup).
>>
>> -eric
>>
>> On May 23, 2018, at 2:47 PM, Stephen Partington wrote:
>>
>> I have dealt with latitudes for a while. The NVIDIA systems worked great
>> with hybrid graphics (thanks to bumblebee!) but the one i had with a radeon
>> GPU lost its gourd any time i tried to use the AMD GPU. I think the drivers
>> are just better for nvidia in this regard.
>>
>> Makes em want to dual boot linux on my laptop again....
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 2:13 PM, Matt Graham <>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2018-05-23 10:22, Jerry Snitselaar wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon May 21 18, Stephen Partington wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I have found that intel/AMD hybrid laptop combinations are a real pita
>>>>> to work with and get all of your hardware running. [...] Intel has
>>>>> embraced Linux pretty well of late so aside from hybrid soft raid it
>>>>> all works.
>>>>>
>>>> Intel has one of the largest kernel teams of any company right
>>>> now. They do a pretty good job at getting support for their hardware
>>>> into the kernel as quickly as possible
>>>>
>>>
>>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/hybrid_graphics says the hybrid
>>> graphics parts should be doable. At least that's what I thought you meant
>>> when you said "intel/AMD hybrid". There are also a lot of references to
>>> fooling with various settings ("AHCI mode in the BIOS") to get a
>>> spinny-disk + M.2 setup (hybrid soft RAID?) recognized properly. I don't
>>> know for sure though, never tried to install anything on one of these.
>>>
>>> Any idea what Dell systems you were having trouble with?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yeah, we had many poweredge machines, and only one of them ever had any
>>> real trouble with Linux. I think its hardware was flaky. For every other
>>> machine, just install, configure, and it ran until the {disk, fan, CPU,
>>> NIC} pooped out.
>>>
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>>
>> Stephen
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> Stephen
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