<p dir="ltr">Looks like what I want to do for my wife's laptop</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 6, 2015 5:41 PM, <<a href="mailto:joe@actionline.com">joe@actionline.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Brian Cluff last wrote:<br>
> You'll enjoy that Laptop a lot. I just picked up a T420 myself<br>
> a few weeks ago and everything works perfect right out of the box.<br>
> I did add 8 gigs of ram for a total of 12 and installed a 240Gig<br>
> mSATA SSD ... an addition to the 320 Gig spinning drive that<br>
> I put /home on, and that made a huge difference in the speed<br>
> of all the apps loading.<br>
<br>
How difficult is it to add an SSD?<br>
<br>
I really don't need the 500-gig HD that is in this T420<br>
that I just bought. On my old net-top system, df shows this:<br>
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on<br>
/dev/sda5 15307020 6231552 8307468 43% /<br>
udev 1020708 4 1020704 1% /dev<br>
tmpfs 412276 1060 411216 1% /run<br>
none 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock<br>
none 1030680 21072 1009608 3% /run/shm<br>
/dev/sda6 71559236 26600696 41374540 40% /home<br>
<br>
Instead of flushing the 500-gig HD, could I just install<br>
a 64-gig or 128-gig SSD and install Linux on that and leave<br>
the 500-gig unused? I don't need to bother with dual boot.<br>
<br>
I looked on Amazon and saw these:<br>
<br>
Transcend 64GB SATA III 6Gb/s MSA370 mSATA Solid State Drive<br>
(TS64GMSA370) by Transcend $39.99 Prime<br>
<br>
MyDigitalSSD 128GB 50mm Bullet Proof 4 BP4 50mm mSATA<br>
Solid State Drive SSD SATA III 6G - MDMS-BP4-120<br>
by MyDigitalSSD $55.00 Prime or $44.95 used (3 offers)<br>
<br>
Also, what is the best way to install Linux Mint 17.2?<br>
<br>
I downloaded linuxmint-17.2-mate-32bit.iso but the size<br>
is 1,572,864,000 so I can't burn that onto a dvd to<br>
install it.<br>
<br>
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