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Originally Posted by grumpyskeptic
Thanks. Could anyone tell me what the names or specification of the solid-state hard drive is, so that I can avoid buying the wrong thing when I order a larger SS HD online?
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If you are willing to hack together your own power adapter, you can use
any 2.5" drive (either spinning or SSD).
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Thanks for the instructions about how to squeeze a more than a bare-bones Linux distribution on the HD, but I do not understand them and I think it's easier to buy a bigger SS HD.
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Oh, it's easier to do a minimal Debian install. Here are more detailed instructions:
1) Get the Debian netinst CD image (AMD64) from here:
https://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/
The specific link for the AMD64 install iso file is:
https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd...64-netinst.iso
If you don't know what to do with this iso file, you can refer to the Debian installation guide:
https://www.debian.org/releases/stab...4/ch04.html.en
2) Do a minimal Debian install.
2a) When it gets to the partitioning step, choose manual partitioning. DELETE all current (Windows) partitions. Create just one partition - ext4. The Debian installer will default to making this the full 4GB size of your SSD. This is what you want.
2b) When it gets to the software suit selection stage, do NOT choose to install a Debian Desktop Environment. Actually, the installer will automatically detect that the drive doesn't have enough space for the default Debian Desktop Environment install so it will start of de-selected.
2c) When it asks about installing GRUB, install GRUB to /dev/sda
3) After booting into the new install, log in as "root" (using the password you entered during the install).
4) Run the following to install the software:
Code:
apt-get install xorg xfce4 lightdm firefox-esr libreoffice-writer libreoffice-calc
apt-get clean
The resulting install will take about 2GB of drive space, leaving about 2GB free.
Then, reboot using: