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Installation In my last post about my ThinkPad T40s I mentioned that I added a 256GB mSATA drive and installed Debian 13 + XFCE. Guided Partitioning doesn’t work when you install to 2 drives, it will just pick the first drive and create the necessary partitions. Manual partitioning is necessary. I previously mentioned I set up the drives as follows: Device Partition Mount Point Size Drive /dev/sdb1 /boot/EFI 1024 MB mSATA /dev/sdb2 / 226 GB mSATA /dev/sda1 /home 466 GB 2.5" SSD One of the cool things about having a large /home partition is that the root / partition can be backed up to /home using timeshift. Because I’m planning on adding and removing lots of software timeshift backups will become critically important. If I mess up the system adding/removing packages, running sudo timeshift will let me go back to the last backup. It’s worth noting that timeshift isn’t a /home backup, it’s an OS backup. Other software exists for simple data backups (thinking deja dup). ...

Overview The Lenovo ThinkPad T430s is the “thin and light” version of the Lenovo ThinkPad T430. I put “thin and light” in quotes because the ThinkPad T430s is quite bulky compared to thin laptops made in the past 5 years. The s in T430s indicates the slim version of the ThinkPad T430. Notebookcheck has a good review of the T430s. The review covers some of the differences between the T430s and the T430. Basically, the T430s is a lighter, less upgradable version of the T430. The T430’s processor can be replaced; the T430s’s processor is soldered in place. ...