So it's a slow trickle of freebie trading now, not that I especially care except the NO TRADING POLICY on here included "postage only" trades too.

USE AMIBAY.COM where you will find a community site designed for trading and with plenty of people willing to help out with the sort of thing you are after

My bad, wasn't aware of that.
I'll check the site, thanks =D

Seems they don't have a section for, as you said "freebies". Could you suggest another place similar to that, or somewhere else to look at? I'd love to trade things with those enthusiasts, but really I have nothing interesting that I can dispose of...
And if I could I would just go and buy a high capacity (+250GB) IDE HDD off ebay but I can't buy things online nor have the founds for.

^ there is the "RECYCLE BIN" where people send things for postage cost only... but you have to be a member for some time to get access there... you can always just post a wanted thread in "Wanted Hardware / Other " in the mean time, people might have an old HDD around that are willing to part cheaply...

Thanks, I'll see if I can save some cash for that 🤣

Why don't you just order a CF-to-IDE adapter? It will probably cause you less trouble than some increasingly-ancient mechanical drive.

You'll probably get bored with Linux pretty fast anyway. 😉

I didn't even knew CFs are still made. In my case I would require Crunchbang for what I want to do, I can't get "bored" of it that way. Still, this would make it highly inefficient as the CF won't last long constantly reading and writing from the card plus those are usually lower in capacity than 10GB (I know Wikipedia says there are 256GB models, but where to find those if not for the gargantuan price they proably have).

marooned_on_mars wrote:

In my case I would require Crunchbang for what I want to do, I can't get "bored" of it that way.

Then you'll decide you don't want to do what you want to do that badly after all. 🤣

(Of course I say that not knowing anything about what it is exactly that you want to do and could easily be wrong, but lacking other information, I feel this is the safe way to bet. I'll let this get back to the subject of asking for stuff now.)

Sounds like we have a Linux basher here 🤣
Anyway, I think it's beyond this thread's purpose to explain what I need Crunchbang for but I'll do it anyway:
My dad uses this PC and since I can't set windows to his native language he can't understand some things, so I thought I would make a Crunchbang installation and put on it lxde since it has a similar main interface as Windows with which my dad is familiar. And I want to do all this while I would keep my own data and install of Windows (which I wish I could abolish in the end and completely move to Linux). Hope that answers your questions.