The internal drive is recognized by the BIOS, but fails to spin up.

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.

Trying to get CentOS 7 on it, but I'm flirting with the idea of trying Manjaro on it.

On Sun, Aug 4, 2019, 10:50 Matthew Gibson <guanjun.de.geliqian@gmail.com> wrote:
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?

These are a few of my thoughts. I'll see if I can find my own drives to burn a disc for you. 

On Sun, Aug 4, 2019, 8:57 AM Snyder, Alexander J <alexander@snyderfamily.co> wrote:
I wasn't able to go to Installfest, we had guests.

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?

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.

So now I'm really confused.

Thanks,
Alexander

Sent from my Galaxy S10+

On Sun, Aug 4, 2019, 08:43 Matt Graham <mhgraham@crow202.org> wrote:
On 2019-08-03 10:49, Snyder, Alexander J wrote:
> Does anyone have a bootable Linux CD?
> I don't have a burner, or discs. So I'm asking for help!
> Can someone burn CentOS7 minimal for me?

Did you get a CD from Installfest?  If not, I have a DVD+-RW and a CD-R
blank somewhere around here.  Reply with your snail-mail address if you
still need help.

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