Getting new hardware - can I just move the disk?

[Liam Proven]

On Tue, 12 Oct 2021 at 21:46, Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes the Ubuntu Mate desktop ISO when burned to a DVD and used to start the
> system ended in an *unusable* screen.

Strange but not unheard-of. I've seen it once.

> Then I read others also having problems with Mate graphics so I burned a new DVD
> with Ubuntu desktop (same version but NOT Mate).
>
> And this actually did succeed to get to a barely workable GUI screen where I
> could start GParted and check the drives.

Aha! Great!

> When this was going on I realized that I should have done this from the server
> itself, there must be command line tools that can do this too and then it would
> not be so scary with this barely working live system. But that is hindsight...

It's _much_ harder to do when booted into the OS on the drive. In
fact, I am not sure I know a way to do that without LVM being involved
before partitioning and installation.

So -- no. A live medium is the easy way.

> If I walk away a while and come back then a screensaver has hit and I have to
> move the mouse and massage keyboard to get it working again. Why do they have
> default screensavers on live trials nowadays?

Power saving.

> But I could get it back so all is not lost....

Good!

> I don't really know....
>
> This is an old Acer eMachine model EL1352
> I found some data on-line:
> - AMD Athlon II X2 220
> - nVidia GeForce 6150SE
> - 2GB DDR3 RAM
> - 500 GB HDD
> It was manufactured in 2010, I believe.

Aha! I think that may be similar to some problems I had recently with
old nVidia cards.

Ideally they need the nVidia binary driver, but that's now old and
unmaintained and it doesn't work with recent kernels. Nouveau, the
free driver, seems to have problems with some very old cards.

Yours is known to be problematic:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/game-ready-drivers/13/199329/ubuntu-linux-mint-geforce-6150se-nforce-430-cause/

-- this page (above) hints that Debian 9 has such an old kernel that it works.

https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Desktop-Video-Display-and-Touch/Nvidia-GeForce-6150SE-integrated-display-adaopter/td-p/8121917


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