[TriLUG] [SOLVED] RE: Debian 10 (Buster) on Brand-New OptiPlex 3070 Installer is Glacial

[David Burton via TriLUG]

On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 9:58 AM Brian Henning via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> Wow.  This is a new one on me.  The culprit turned out to be a HDD I moved
> from the old machine into the new one prior to starting this process
> (because that's the drive the VM images live on).  I pulled it to boot the
> old machine back up and, on a whim, tried starting the installer on the new
> one again and lo and behold, it's working perfectly.
>
> So: Why would the presence of an ostensibly fully-functional hard drive
> cause the Debian installer to turn into a creaky old man?
>
> I suppose it remains to be seen what happens once I hook up this drive
> after a successful Debian installation.
>
> -B
>


Well, that explains this:

On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 12:57 PM Brian via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:

> We're only changing it at all
> because the original hardware has become unreliable.