Bought a 500 Gig SATA drive and a portable enclosure to corral it, the idea being to install the latest Mint on it, and update Thunderguts and Firefox (or whatever it's called this week), then transfer what I want from the drive in my MSi notebook.
I plug in the USB connections and a pretty blue light comeson, the drive is spinning, but there is no sign of it where there should be.
True, I haven't played with the jumpers yet, but surely, there ought to be *some* acknowledgement that there's a drive there?
And what number has Mint reached? I'm running 14 at present, and I have a feeling that it's a bit too long in the tooth...
On 27/04/15 12:16, Anthony Anson wrote:
I plug in the USB connections and a pretty blue light comeson, the drive is spinning, but there is no sign of it where there should be.
On my minty machine they end up in /media/nev/<diskname>
And what number has Mint reached? I'm running 14 at present, and I have a feeling that it's a bit too long in the tooth...
AFAICT mint is now up to version 17.1 (Rebecca)
Nev
On 28/04/15 06:02, Nev Young wrote:
On 27/04/15 12:16, Anthony Anson wrote:
I plug in the USB connections and a pretty blue light comes on, the drive is spinning, but there is no sign of it where there should be.
On my minty machine they end up in /media/nev/<diskname>
Found that pretty bloo light (not Billy Bluelight) indicates that Mint is *still* examining the drive. Unfortunately, it is unable to read the partition data- probably because there isn't any
And what number has Mint reached? I'm running 14 at present, and I have a feeling that it's a bit too long in the tooth...
AFAICT mint is now up to version 17.1 (Rebecca)
Ar, I'd reached that conclusion, so I downloaded the notes pdf for it. Yet to examine document.
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