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|    Maurice Kinal to Sergey Sapronov    |
|    Linux for old computer (very)    |
|    10 Nov 21 10:34:39    |
      REPLY: 2:5020/827.1 618b7302       MSGID: 2:280/464.113 618b7cfb       CHRS: UTF-8 4       TZUTC: 0230       TZ: UTC-02:30:28       Hey Sergey!               SS> Ответ на сообщение Maurice Kinal (2:280/464.113) к       Sergey Sapronov, написанное 10 ноя 21 в 09:02:              Easy for you to say. ;-)               SS> There is a CD-rom, but it does not read modern cd-r for some        SS> unknown reason.              I am betting it is too fast a burn speed. I hear 4x is the best speed for       targetting older CD-ROMs. Also CDs used to be 650M so that also might be an       issue since I believe CDs are now 700M? It's been awhile but I do remember       that lower burn speeds made a big difference.               SS> So far I have come to this option: I removed the HDD, connected        SS> it via an IDE-2-USB adapter to a full-fledged laptop, created a        SS> virtual machine with this physical disk through VMWare player on        SS> it, and on this disk I plan to install Linux from an iso image,        SS> and after installation, connect the hdd back to the old laptop              I used to do that without the virtual. It worked great and was way faster       than CD installs. I still do it this way except with SSDs.               SS> this is the design!              An excellent one.              Life is good,       Maurice              ... Longað þonne þy læs þe him con leoþa worn.        He is less troubled by longing who knows many songs.       --- GNU bash, version 5.1.8(1)-release (x86_64-moosile-linux-gnu)        * Origin: Little Mikey's EuroPoint @ (2:280/464.113)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 14/0 90/1 103/705 105/81 114/709 120/340 123/131 124/5016       SEEN-BY: 129/305 153/757 154/10 203/0 221/0 226/30 227/114 702 229/424       SEEN-BY: 229/426 428 452 550 616 664 700 240/77 420 5138 5411 5824       SEEN-BY: 240/5832 5853 249/206 317 400 280/464 5003 282/1038 292/854       SEEN-BY: 292/8125 301/1 310/31 317/3 320/219 322/757 342/200 396/45       SEEN-BY: 423/120 633/280 712/848 770/1 2432/390 2452/250 2454/119       SEEN-BY: 5020/545       PATH: 280/464 240/5832 229/426           |
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