<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div style="font-family:Arial;">It won’t recognize the usb ssd unless you upgrade the bios.</div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div>On Sun, Aug 4, 2019, at 11:41, Snyder, Alexander J wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt"><div style="font-family:Arial;">The internal drive is recognized by the BIOS, but fails to spin up.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">The Laptop was built in 2009 by Puget Systems (https://www.pugetsystems.com/), so yes, the hardware is old, but I highly doubt it's "Too Old" for Linux. I found another USB SSD I bought the same time as the laptop, so I'm going to try and format that and see if it works as a bootable device.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">Trying to get CentOS 7 on it, but I'm flirting with the idea of trying Manjaro on it.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">On Sun, Aug 4, 2019, 10:50 Matthew Gibson <guanjun.de.geliqian@gmail.com> wrote:<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> Does it have the ability to boot from network? Didn't you say that the laptop has an internal DVD/CD drive? Could your install media need to be locked in some way after the burn is complete? Is the ISO too new to work with old hard ware?<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> These are a few of my thoughts. I'll see if I can find my own drives to burn a disc for you. <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> On Sun, Aug 4, 2019, 8:57 AM Snyder, Alexander J <alexander@snyderfamily.co> wrote:<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">>> I wasn't able to go to Installfest, we had guests.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">>> <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">>> After they left, I went hunting in the garage and found an old DVD-R (USB). I went to Best Buyand got a few blank DVDs. So, it won't read from a 2019 USB-SSD, but it'll boot from a ~2015 USB-DVD drive?<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">>> <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">>> I can get into the CentOS 7 setup but it fails to verify the media, and refuses to continue. When I skip verify, it still fails by saying the media is not fit for install.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">>> <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">>> So now I'm really confused.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">>> <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">>> Thanks, <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">>> Alexander<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">>> <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">>> Sent from my Galaxy S10+<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">>> <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">>> On Sun, Aug 4, 2019, 08:43 Matt Graham <mhgraham@crow202.org> wrote:<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">>>> On 2019-08-03 10:49, Snyder, Alexander J wrote:<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">>>> > Does anyone have a bootable Linux CD?<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">>>> > I don't have a burner, or discs. So I'm asking for help!<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">>>> > Can someone burn CentOS7 minimal for me?<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">>>> <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">>>> Did you get a CD from Installfest? If not, I have a DVD+-RW and a CD-R <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">>>> blank somewhere around here. 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