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then it sounds like a good plan.

He means swap the existing hdd with a new SSD. Put your hdd where the dvd goes. Either should work fine though, no need for the switch around.

NT

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tabbypurr
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Normally yes. There is win only hardware but they are a tiny percentage. If one linux distro doesn't work just try another - dl a few before losing windows.

I've not had that happen with linux, but windows usually it does.

Linux distros have their own repository of apps, pick ones from that. These cover almost everything. So the jobs it'll do are the same but it may be an app with another name.

There is the occasional app that thas no native linux equivalent. These can be run in a windows emulator on linux, eg 'wine.'

Lastly dling apps from the wild web is definitely not advisable, and should be treated as a last resort.

NT

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tabbypurr

reformat it as ext3, not a windows format Linux wants 2 partitions, one for swap space, one for everything else. 4G of swap should be more than you'll ever need.

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tabbypurr

I have an old Intel 330 120gb SSD. I assume this is fine for the Linux OS. So just a matter getting a caddy, inserting, getting into the BIOS and make the SSD the boot (run) disk keeping the one TB HDD as data.

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John

IF you can so that. Boot from the caddy SSD.

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The Natural Philosopher

The Intel 330 120gb SSD is SATA3 so I assume OK. I noticed the SSD has more pins than the HDD. I am not sure if the SSD is compatible to plug in. It is about 7 or 8 years old, but not used for 6 years.

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John

sata is a 4 pin interface

here's a teardown and replace

formatting link

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The Natural Philosopher

The SSD has a 15 pin and a 7 pin. The Lenovo 310 is easier than the vid. No need to remove the keyboard.

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John

should be fine

Yep

NT

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tabbypurr

Actually on my 'SSD only' laptop I tuned the OS and it never uses swap. Although it's there...

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The Natural Philosopher

Why? Having anything operating system related on a slower HDD instead of an SSD will slow matters down.

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John

The data connector has 7 pins.

Yup that's standard - the wider one is power.

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John Rumm

Some people get worried about using up all the write cycles on the SSD.

Not really a consideration in domestic use - most modern drives support hundreds of TB written.

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John Rumm

pretty terrible advice.

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tabbypurr

I inserted a 120BG SSD in the main drive of the Lenovo 310. The 1 TB HDD was moved to the DVD space using a caddy frame. I installed Linux Mint onto the USB stick. All easy enough, then problems...

It was near impossible to install Linux onto the SSD. With jiggery-pokery I did install. I could not see inside the SSD drive as it kept saying it was unmounted. It took three attempts to install on the SSD from the USB stick. Did sort of mount the SSD with it now working from the SSD. The problem is all sorts of stuff in a prompt window scrolls up when booting. I have to hit the return key to get it to boot properly while this this scrolling is going on. This is annoying as the boot time is slow.

I am trying to increase font sizes as default is tiny.

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John

did you not simply click on the 'install' option on the desktop?

I installed from a dvd boot to SSD with only about three typed in answers - name password and then confirm time zone and keyboard

There should be nothing on screen in a normal boot

I think you have been too clever

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The Natural Philosopher

right click on desktop select change background select fonts...

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The Natural Philosopher

I just did it as you should, the so-called easy way. It never worked properly. Once booted it is fine and fast. It hope it stays fast. It is the boot up junk that comes up at first and having to hit return at the right time to get it to boot.

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John

I have never ever had to do that. I have no idea what you have done#

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The Natural Philosopher

When you boot a computer from a DVD, the prompt

Press any key to boot from CD...

appears on the screen. It's presented by the BIOS.

There is some logic to that prompt. It doesn't always appear. It could even be, that something the DVD content does, helps the system to decide that prompt must appear. I've even had that prompt appear "late", much later than it should, and the boot is already "committed" to using the DVD and yet the prompt has still appeared.

When Linux boots, it has many options for video card operating mode.

One of the options allows the textual output of the boot sequence, to appear on the screen. The timestamp, in seconds, is on the left of the screen.

On LiveDVDs, under normal circumstances, the "quiet splash" bootline options, suppress the text output, in the sense that the surface they're being printed on, is not visible to the user. However, after the system successfully comes up, you can do

dmesg | less

and review all the things the boot process printed out. The output is not "lost" in any sense, if you need to review it.

Paul

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Paul

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