#i just want to fuck around with linux distros on old laptops

[scalderaan]

criminal how hard it is to find 16gb usbs that aren’t shit these days

[dalishthunder]

WIP Wednesday Thursday

Tagged by the wonderful @totally-not-deacon

I tag... um... hmmm fuck.... I genuinely cannot think of anyone who would really want to do this, the only one I can think of is currently on a sabbatical

I have finally gotten off my ass and begun writing again! What a wonderful thing! Have some All Around the Mulberry Bush teasers

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The lock clicked ominously as you dead-bolted it; Shades already shut, router turned off, unplugged and covered in foil for good measure, phone powered down in the other room. The wireless card removed from your test laptop. You were not taking any chances tonight.

You put the tupperware lid down on the table, pulling your gloves over your wrists with a snap.

“Safety first,” You muttered as you adjusted the straps of your goggles so they were snug against your face.

You’d already gone ahead and installed SystemRescue as your OS on your test laptop just for the occasion. Sure, you may not have been as familiar with Arch Linux systems as you were with Debian or Ubuntu based distros, but nothing else came with such a robust lineup of repair tools preinstalled. And the likelihood that something would infect this PC with malware was incredibly small.

You could do this.

There was nothing to be afraid of.

In fact, Fazbear should be afraid of you.

You adjusted your mask so that it wasn’t fogging up your goggles, and turned your test computer on. You’d already learned your lesson when you’d extracted the drive from the crusty old laptop… there was no way in hell you were letting that thing touch your crappy little coffee table again. Gingerly you placed it on the tupperware lid, plugging it into the cable.

Of course your computer didn’t detect it….

You sighed, pulling up the command terminal.

Well, it was showing up in lsusb….

That was something at least.

Nothing in fdisk or lsblk….

Diligently you tapped away at your keyboard, trying out a few commands.

You reseated the cable a few times, leaving it unplugged as you typed in the command to load the usb storage before you plugged it back in.

“C’mon babygirl….”

You licked your lips as you heard the hard drive whir to life.

You were a goddamn wizard.

It still wasn’t loading, but there was no doubt that the disk was corrupted. So you pulled up TestDisk and began the slow process of recovery.

You created a log, documenting everything you were doing.

Someone had to.

You opened up the drive. Multiple partitions…. More things to go wrong.

No.

More things to go right.