[SOLVED] Installing 12.20 on elderly laptop
by business_kid from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6GWB1)
I have anelderly Samsung NP350C laptop. It seemed it was their first generation with uefi because it was a pig. I formatted with fdisk, set the Bios to legacy, and used it as a pre-uefi pc. Fine with Slackware.
I do have 25G meant for another OS. I failed to install linux Mint on it. Now I'm trying with the Debian-12.2 netinst-iso. That's not seen as a bootable usb device:(.
I have grub on this, and can hack something together, but it just won't go near all that mess of directories that efi is. Here is the disk layout Code:bash-5.1$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda 8:0 0 223.6G 0 disk
sda1 8:1 0 500M 0 part /boot
sda2 8:2 0 5G 0 part [SWAP]
sda3 8:3 0 40G 0 part /
sda4 8:4 0 1K 0 part
sda5 8:5 0 50G 0 part /home
sda6 8:6 0 25G 0 part
sda7 8:7 0 103.1G 0 part /mnt/virtualsda6 had Mint-19.? on it, but I couldn't update it to Mint-20. Alternatively, if any other distro has package management and a half decent repo, I'll try it. It has to handle a 100% legacy system, though. sda7 is a sort of overflow space for whatever weird thing is going on an any point in time.
I do have 25G meant for another OS. I failed to install linux Mint on it. Now I'm trying with the Debian-12.2 netinst-iso. That's not seen as a bootable usb device:(.
I have grub on this, and can hack something together, but it just won't go near all that mess of directories that efi is. Here is the disk layout Code:bash-5.1$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda 8:0 0 223.6G 0 disk
sda1 8:1 0 500M 0 part /boot
sda2 8:2 0 5G 0 part [SWAP]
sda3 8:3 0 40G 0 part /
sda4 8:4 0 1K 0 part
sda5 8:5 0 50G 0 part /home
sda6 8:6 0 25G 0 part
sda7 8:7 0 103.1G 0 part /mnt/virtualsda6 had Mint-19.? on it, but I couldn't update it to Mint-20. Alternatively, if any other distro has package management and a half decent repo, I'll try it. It has to handle a 100% legacy system, though. sda7 is a sort of overflow space for whatever weird thing is going on an any point in time.