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 <eric.oyen@icloud.com> 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 <mhgraham@crow202.org> 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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