Espacio Mixto

I'm doing a hardware upgrade to this  old   laptop by upgrading the RAM from 2G to 4G, removing the DVD and adding a caddy to store the original hard drive were the DVD was and a new SDD to install the OS instead of the original HDD. The caddy I gouth is a PATA IDE to SATA, 12.7mm to connect the original HDD, which you can see over the DVD and the SSD already connected and protected by that metal "cage" to the left. Now, you can see the original RAM installed and the new 4G protected with the envelops they were sent by the provider: And now, these are the brand new 4G RAM installed:  Now, this is how it looks the caddy taking the place and simulating being the DVD (at the bottom): The old BIOS detects the new RAM installed: But I had a problem with the BIOS to put the SSD as the primary boot device and the HDD as secondary,  somehow the HDD went to the "bottom" of the options and it was complicate to put it below the SSD. When I finally got the drives in the boo...

A couple of years ago, wife needed a new laptop and bought a new notebook, the "STAR WARS™ Special Edition Notebook" specifically... because "star wars". You can see the model here: https://www8.hp.com/us/en/campaigns/HP_Star_Wars_laptop/overview.html She decided first to use the Windows  OS and later to have dual OS having Windows and GNU/Linux.  Some time later she went full with GNU/Linux distribution. November 11th - The notebook started to fail at boot, you can imagine that after this time the hard drive could have issues and that's what we confirmed. She'll buy a new hard drive... some time in the future. November 30, 2019 the future was that day and the 1TB hard drive was dead. When we had the new hard drive installed and ready, we tried with OpenSuSe but after the installation was done and first boot completed, it felt "slow" and we considered it was too much for this laptop and we decided to try with Mint. Agai...