Why a 32G SSD? Well admittedly it’s not quite big enough to comfortably fit the OS on, I did consider a 120G msata but at the time they were ~£120 thought I see they can be had for ~£60 now. ![]() I didn’t really want to add a third phone bill to the household accounts, that will come in about 10 years time no doubt, but a 32G mSATA SSD card at £26 seemed like a reasonable purchase(*). My T430 was purchased off the back of a Scottish Government tender and they presumably see such things as foolish luxuries. T430s are normally advertised as coming with an mSATA drive or a WWAN card in the mini PCIe slot (if you drop the battery out you can see where you’d fit a SIM card). At this point I should admit to making a small modification to the laptop. Ubuntu or debian would I’m sure work equally as well, some of the tweaks I’m going to list will work equally well with those (in fact some are stolen from ubuntu support websites. So to installing linux….Fedora kind of wins because work is rpm based and I like to have something fairly bleeding edge see what’s happening. The First decision was whether or not to keep the copy of Windows that the laptop came with, given I’d only used it twice in the last six months…and then only to play Return to Castle Wolfenstein it seemed like a small sacrifice. ![]() The linux partition on the work laptop was full and a power failure mid-rezizing partitions (top tip, never resize your partitions on a low battery near a child playing Disney infinity, It’ll end in tears) meant that it was time to think about upgrading from F20 to F21.
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