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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