It won’t recognize the usb ssd unless you upgrade the bios.
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.
> 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.
>
>> 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 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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