Re: Bizarre hardware

On Wednesday, 22 April 2026 00:28:49 British Summer Time Michael wrote:

> You can get rid of old gear on ebay 'sold as new', or in the firesale
> sections of various hardware forums.  You may not get the full retail
> price, but you should at least get something for it to contribute to
> your next project.

It's going back to its maker, as I said.

> I haven't used SystemRescuecd since it moved over to systemd.

What do you use now?

> The very last time I used it, I had to rebuild it in order to include
> firmware for a Radeon card plus an out-of-kernel driver and firmware for a
> wireless NIC.  It could be you had to follow a similar approach for your
> hardware.  The current SystemRescuecd customising process appears rather
> easier than what I had to do.  It uses 'System-Rescue-Modules' as an
> overlay squashfs, explained here:
> 
> https://www.system-rescue.org/Modules/

I'll look into that - thanks.

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Regards,
Peter.