Hendrik Boom wrote:
Actually, I've tried using old klunkers to do backups, and discovered that they can't take large hard disks. One of mine won't go beyond about 128 gig, tha other gets stuck somewhere between 2.5G and 80 G.
I don't know if it will work for all old machines, but when I ran into that problem I turned off the backup disk in the BIOS, letting linux find it after booting from a smaller disk.