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