Comments on: Nothing lasts forever

By: diablofixed

diablofixed — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:03:00 +0000

CompactFlash -> IDE adapter plus a cheap CF card would do you well, and you can get in on the solid-state era!

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:18:19 +0000

bkanev: I plan to. It’s the picking of the drive that I worry about. Most drives are at least 80Gb that I see, and I know this BIOS still thinks 20Gb is oversized. I hope there’s no upper limit for what the BIOS will accept. …

JiGGaK: Let me think about that. Smaller, older drives are sometimes useful. …

By: JiGGaK

JiGGaK — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:16:00 +0000

I have two spare laptop drives collecting dust, one of them is yours if you want it. Last I checked both where working; there is a 2.4gb and a 3.0gb.

Email me if you are interested… I’d hate for the “ugly little laptop” to die.

By: bkanev

bkanev — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:01:28 +0000

Aww, you can’t add another hdd to the ugly kid?

By: JustCreepin'

JustCreepin' — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:44:03 +0000

For the short-term, if you really wanted the machine to NOT sit around useless, you could always run the Wolvix LiveCD. It has the ability to save changes to a USB jumpdrive, so you could install things, change configurations, etc, and your changes would all be saved when you rebooted.

I also think a few other distros have this (Puppy comes to mind), but good luck with whatever you do. I’m sure I’ll read about in the near future .