Magic Banana said:
"/home in a separate [partition] has an obvious advantage: being able to
(re)install a GNU/Linux system without touching the user data."
You betcha; that was my first task after getting Trisquel 7 installed OK. You
should see the grub menu !
Alas, either the motherboard has an intermittent connection or the case is
somehow shorting it out. I'll find some short stand-offs to place between the
case's mounting holes and the bottom of the motherboard. Then I'll re-install
Trisquel from the "new" desktop's CD/DVD reader ... but, thanks to Magic
Banana' correct assurance, I now have a working hard drive. With the bare
motherboard sitting on my dining room table, the hard drive with its newly
installed Trisquel would not boot up, probably because it was expecting the
laptop's hardware, and that wasn't there, of course. In the case, it won't
even start.
