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<\/p>\nI have arrived in the world. I have “installed” a hard drive in my tower with a ziptie. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
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Linux Mint Debian Edition 7 is coming out in the near future — the latest Mint blog post<\/a> said the beta would be out this month, and it was approved for release yesterday<\/a> — and I had decided to do a clean install LMDE7. My LMDE6 install is two years old, it’s a little crusty with things I don’t use, and I wanted to put it on the NVMe.<\/p>\n To do that, I was going to move some stuff around. Windows 11, which was on the NVMe, would move to an SSD. I’d shove a clone of the EndeavourOS install on my backup machine onto another SSD, And I’d get a cheap HDD to serve as a storage drive for mp3s.<\/p>\n I was acquiring parts over the last two months or so, and when I ordered a cheap, used HDD for the music drive…<\/p>\n Well, I didn’t read the eBay listing, now did it? I did a search for 2.5 laptop drives, because that’s the size drive bays I have in my tower, saw one that was cheap, and ordered it.<\/p>\n When it arrived, it was in a large box, it was heavy, and it was 3.5 inches.<\/p>\n But, I am nothing in not industrious! There is a grill half an inch or so above the power supply. I got some zipties over the weekend, and today I put everything together.<\/p>\n I cloned the Windows 11 install to an SSD. I cloned the EndeavourOS on the other machine.<\/p>\n I took the panels off the tower and started swapping out components. The Windows 11 NVMe is safely stored away in case I need it in the future and was replaced with a new, 2 terabyte NVMe onto which I will install LMDE7 in the next two or three weeks. (I could install the beta, but I can also be patient.) For the moment, I haven’t even created a partition table.<\/p>\n Windows 11 was grumpy the first time I booted it up on its new home, but it’s fine now.<\/p>\n The cloned EndeavourOS install needed GRUB reinstalled, and that’s fine now, too.<\/p>\n Music files are copying over to the new storage drive.<\/p>\n Why did I need a new storage drive? I had music folders in three different places, so I’m consolidating them, and the files are copying over as I type.<\/p>\n Theseus rebuilt his ship. I am rebuilding my computer storage. The drives of Theseus!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have arrived in the world. I have “installed” a hard drive in my tower with a ziptie. \ud83d\ude42 Linux Mint Debian Edition 7 is coming out in the near future — the latest Mint blog post said the beta would be out this month, and it was approved for release yesterday — and IContinue reading “The Drives of Theseus”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[763],"tags":[5293,5294,5295,5291,5297,4860,5146,5290,5296,5292],"class_list":["post-34715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-computer","tag-computer-tower","tag-disk-drive","tag-endeavouros","tag-hard-disk-drive","tag-linux-mint","tag-linux-mint-debian-edition","tag-lmde","tag-solid-state-drive","tag-windows-11","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}