| daftykins | wow that duck looks like a famous composer perhaps | 00:01 |
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| Safiyyah | Hi all I have a new dell inspiron that I am putting ubuntu Mate into | 15:49 |
| Safiyyah | I have installed the updates in windows | 15:49 |
| Safiyyah | for the firmware, is there anything else I am missing before I move into ubuntu with it? | 15:50 |
| daftykins | depends if the installer will see the drive | 17:28 |
| Safiyyah | I can get my external HDD to be picked up | 17:39 |
| Safiyyah | by either latop actually | 17:39 |
| daftykins | can't? what type is it, something natively USB? | 17:42 |
| Safiyyah | daftykins, it is a western digital | 17:47 |
| Safiyyah | USB external drive | 17:47 |
| Safiyyah | external HDD | 17:48 |
| daftykins | is it spinning up when you plug it in? | 17:48 |
| Safiyyah | it has a little light that comes on | 17:48 |
| Safiyyah | no problem | 17:48 |
| daftykins | so you want to see if programs can see it in a terminal first, try "sudo fdisk -l" and see if it spots the other drive | 17:50 |
| safiyyah_ | https://pastebin.ubuntu.com/p/YHJqMKmr23/ | 17:57 |
| daftykins | hmm nope no second drive, how about the output of "lsusb" and the last screen's worth of output from "dmesg" ? | 17:59 |
| safiyyah_ | https://pastebin.ubuntu.com/p/8QSV3MxchR/ | 18:03 |
| daftykins | ah it's the end of dmesg i'm really keen to see so i think that's just the earliest slice, if you broke from it with ctrl+C | 18:03 |
| daftykins | i'd ordinarily say "dmesg | tail" but it might have happened a bit earlier and not show the part i'm looking for | 18:04 |
| safiyyah_ | https://pastebin.ubuntu.com/p/RFkbMgpVQF/ | 18:05 |
| daftykins | mmm no drive there | 18:06 |
| daftykins | wouldn't hurt to take a toothbrush to the USB connector from the HDD to make sure the data pins aren't dirty and somehow stopping both from seeing it | 18:06 |
| Safiyyah | i hvae gone to plug it into the windows desktop | 18:07 |
| safiyyah_ | while I wait, is there a reason why my USB stick needs 5 hours to dave 30gb of datA? | 18:14 |
| daftykins | depends if the data is all small files, cheap ones are very slow | 18:14 |
| Safiyyah | Is there a way to plug laptop A into laptop B and get the data out directly? | 18:15 |
| daftykins | could be an option if both laptops have wired LAN to plug a network cable between them, give each of them a static IP address, then you could copy data direct via scp | 18:16 |
| daftykins | WiFi would be too slow | 18:16 |
| Safiyyah | only the old one has a LAN | 18:17 |
| daftykins | :< | 18:17 |
| safiyyah_ | I am fed up | 18:19 |
| safiyyah_ | I will decide what to do | 18:20 |
| safiyyah_ | might have to get another external HDD | 18:20 |
| safiyyah_ | let me eat and regain my energy | 18:20 |
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