The hard drive, pre-installation. I rescued it from the computer I broke when I moved here. I added this as a second drive, rather than replacing the old one, so that I can use computer as a small file server.
| I've meant to turn my husband's old computer into a Linux box for years, but I never make the time. In the interest of this class, I skipped my usual tactic of bribing our school hardware tech to do the dirty work for me and added a hard drive and memory myself. | |
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The hard drive, pre-installation. I rescued it from the computer I broke when I moved here. I added this as a second drive, rather than replacing the old one, so that I can use computer as a small file server. |
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A 254 meg chip, to replace the old memory (which I suspect is bad, and was only a 64 meg chip anyway). |
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The case, open and with the new drive and chip installed. I took this picture the first time I had the case open, thinking I was done and that things hadn't been so bad after all. |
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The second time I had the case open. When I tried to boot the computer off the linux cd, nothing happened. After burning a second cd to attempt with, I realized I'd probably done something wrong in reconnecting the CD drive (it shares a cable with the new hard drive). One reconnection later and... |
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...I have a working computer again, which recognizes its new drive and memory. Fedora linux is installing as I type (on another computer, of course...). |