Repurposing computer equipment

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Repurposing and recycling e-waste is good for the planet, and the pocket.

I have a standard procedure when receiving computers that are to be repurposed e.g. for family or school etc.

Before assigning the machines to people I perform the following:

  • alter the BIOS / EFI settings to temporarily disable Secure Boot[note 1]
  • live boot Linux from a ThumbDrive [note 2]
    • backup the disk drive image (either whole disk or each partition)
    • tests that I use to check out laptops:
  • live boot of Linux (e.g. lubuntu as it seems to have latest drivers)
    • phoronex test suit

notes

  1. ↑ On DELL F2 and Intel NUC holding down F2 during boot takes you to the BIOS. F10 on NUC and F12 on DELL takes you to the boot menu.
  2. ↑ I have PXE boot working in my laboratory and will be able to launch live images from there instead of media boot. My collection of images are not quite there yet and in this case PXE network booting would need to be enabled in the laptops.

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