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    Old systems and SSDs

    Thanks for the advice. Not sure it's appropriate, especially given the SATA-1 nature of the controller. However, the main problem is that the debian Linux driver for the PCI SATA card doesn't seem capable of recognizing the $17 SSD. It has no problem with the hot plug of a different brand of...
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    Old systems and SSDs

    So I just figured out that the cheap SSD ($17) on a SI3114 works in WindowsXP, but Linux can't seem to start it. It's obviously seen in the BIOS, otherwise XP wouldn't boot. A live hotplug, of a SATA-3 HD and a Teamgroup SATA-3 SSD, both see the devices appear in my 32-bit PAE Bunsenlabs...
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    Old systems and SSDs

    So I found a couple of old Athlon XP systems, and wondered how'd they work. A big box computer store has some really cheap 120GB/240GB SSDs and the speedup I got on an old Lenovo R61 with one of those SSDs made the system really usable, so I bought a couple SSDs to test those Athlon systems...
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    Athlon XP (2600), 2GB RAM, ATI 2600Pro AGP card - Needs Lightweight Distro AND non-SSE2 Browser

    Thanks for your patience. I didn't think getting a 32-bit Linux live distro would be so involved. But I guess with SSE2 issue with Firefox, and my lack of use anything but RHEL CLI in the last 4 years (well, a bit of Ubuntu in a VM once in a while), my knowledge is a little behind the curve...
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    Athlon XP (2600), 2GB RAM, ATI 2600Pro AGP card - Needs Lightweight Distro AND non-SSE2 Browser

    Just tried the bunsen (https://www.bunsenlabs.org/) 32-bit PAE build and firefox esr60 comes up. However, I can't seem to get the wifi adapter to connect to either my APs. Since this is just a MB on a anti-static pad (I didn't even know if it would boot after 5-6 years) with a PS, video and...
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    AMD Athlon XP CPU Distro choices for today

    Gave this a try. The syslinux boot fails and goes to boot: then says "failed to load COM32 file vesamenu.c32" and repeats. I'm able to say "live lang=EN" at the boot: prompt and it boots, but I don't get english menus.
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    Athlon 1000Mhz, which distro?

    I have an Athlon XP (2600), 2GB of Ram and an ATI 2600Pro AGP card. LinuxLite 3.8 loads, but Firefox aborts (probably sse2 extensions) BodhiLinux didn't load, despite several attempts. Downloading again. Lubuntu 18.08 32-bit loads, but Firefox aborts Pepermint (32-bit) loads, but Firefox...
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    Athlon XP (2600), 2GB RAM, ATI 2600Pro AGP card - Needs Lightweight Distro AND non-SSE2 Browser

    I have an Athlon XP (2600), 2GB of Ram and an ATI 2600Pro AGP card. LinuxLite 3.8 loads, but Firefox aborts (probably sse2 extensions) BodhiLinux didn't load, despite several attempts. Downloading again. Lubuntu 18.08 32-bit loads, but Firefox aborts Pepermint (32-bit) loads, but Firefox...
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