Then he can reinstall Minecraft.Īt 11 years old, these are all tasks he can complete with my direction and supervision (and YouTube videos :) Amazing, isn't it? These are skills I had to teach myself (once I got over my fear of screwing up the hardware) and he gets to benefit from my learning.
He's going to reformat an external hard drive, back up the laptop and then install Linux on it. I told the Dude that instead of a laptop for his birthday, I am going to teach him how to fix the one we have. I've tried uninstalling as much as I could from it and it still runs like molasses in January. My current laptop is a 3 year old Windows 7 computer and, yes, it has become a sluggish beast. Which is why, when the Dude started saying that he wants a laptop for his birthday, we shut that talk down quickly. I've long held that "I don't do hardware" but getting hands-on with tech is an important skill for a frugal geek. Installing Linux is a simple enough task, but for me it was my first foray into salvaging a piece of obsolete tech with my own two hands. It does have a wireless card you can plug into one of the card slots but it's for a dial-up modem. I had to install it entirely offline since the laptop only works from a hard network connection. I had to try a bunch of distros before I found one that worked. A couple of Christmases ago, I spent 3 days installing Linux on it. In fact, that's exactly what we are doing with some of the older boxes. I'm convinced if I can figure out how to get Linux onto 3.5" floppies, that would be a PERFECT little computer! ( Insert hubby's eye rolling here) In fact, I'm convinced some of them can find new life.Įvery time I pull out the 1994 laptop, hubby sighs. I took a bunch of old towers, serial port keyboards and giant CRT monitors to the depot but left behind everything listed above. Last summer, we were purging stuff from the basement and hubby suggested (begged?) I ditch anything that no longer had a purpose. A Pentium II Windows 2000 laptop from purchased from one of the companies I worked for in 2001, when they were shutting down.Every single hard drive that has ever been housed in one of our desktops (for privacy reasons).
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