It's upgrade time again.....(woo-hooo)

[MikeWalsh]

Now then:-

The Lat booted up fine, and the new drive was immediately seen and works as expected. Apart from needing a slightly firmer push to fully seat the caddy, compared to the optical drive, it's all been very hassle-free.

Since the Lat is on Google's list of 'supported' devices for ChromeOS-Flex, I'll keep an install of this on a permanently plugged-in USB 3.2 SanDisk Ultra 'Fit' thumb drive. ChromeOS-Flex wants an entire drive to itself, and since I've booted it on here from a thumb drive before I shall run it like that. I'm not wasting an entire second internal drive on it, since after 'dd'-ing the .bin file to a drive that drive then can't be used for anything else unless you perform a 'full' install (summat to do with the primary & 'backup' GPT partition tables). I don't see the point, especially since it can see and read from from/write to other installed drives.....I only want the OS itself.

If I have ChromeOS-Flex running on the HP Pavilion desktop rig at the same time, the two will 'sync' in real time anyway.

I'll give a Puppy frugal install a try from the new drive via the caddy this evening. I don't anticipate any real issues.


Mike.

 

[MikeWalsh]

Just a small update:-

I've now upgraded the elderly 640GB WD 'Blue' plate-spinner for a second Crucial BX500.....this time, a 1 TB variant. This gives me a ton of space for additional vids, music, pix....you name it. And everything's far more responsive now, since it's ALL solid-state.

Just goes to show, elderly hardware CAN be given a new lease of life by upgrading internal components. The most impressive bit about doing things this way? I haven't even had to update the drive UUID. After partitioning & fomatting the new drive, I just copied stuff over from the old drive to this one.....and it was immediately seen & was usable straight away.

Very neat. And because I kept the layout the same.....even the symlinks all still work. Can't ask for better than that...


Mike.