It’s alive (the frankenstein laptop)
The replacement laptop chassis arrived and I got it running
- booted to BIOS first to make sure that part worked
- moved over the drive (M2 SSD) and battery
- booted immediately to Win10 but I couldn’t get it to dualboot to linux
- tried to use Boot Repair in a LiveUSB Mint to repair boot, but Windoze was interfering
- gave up, wiped the drive and reinstalled Mint Linux Debian Edition. Windoze is no more
- tried to restore with Timeshift but it fell over and the restored system was borked. Maybe I didn’t know what I was doing
- reinstalled Mint again (takes about 10mins)
- updated OS from repos
- restored /home directory from backups
So on Day 2 it’s about 90%. Still finding stuff I have to reinstall. Glad to have a fully functional laptop again.
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