On Monday, 26 February 2024 13:20:58 AEDT Andrew Greig via luv-main wrote: > I am intending to lend a friend this device for his travels in Europe > mainly to get photos off his camera SD card and into a suitably sized > ext, HDD, > > When I turned it on I found it had a Mageia OS (RPM) I have the BIOS set > for boot from USB stick.
Does the system that's on there support the interfaces to his camera in the way he wants? If he just wants to mount a SD card then not much has changed on the software side in that regard for about 10 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SD_card If the hardware supports the SD format needed (note that there are 4 formats listed in the Wikipedia page and the laptop in question may only support the first 2) then it should just work. If it doesn't support SDXC then you can just use 32GB cards (which is a lot if you regularly copy them off) or use a USB adaptor to support higher capacities. If he wants to use gphoto2 then the version on there might not support his camera if it's a newer camera. But compiling a recent gphoto2 for an old system might be easier than doing a fresh installation. It's an old laptop and isn't going to be used for demanding tasks so probably not worth the effort of a reinstall. But if I was going to install on it I'd use Debian. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
