Hi NMGLUG folks, I'm planning to be there on Thu 17 Jan. I recently received in the mail three items: a Lenovo thinkpad X240 laptop, a 1TB SSD pro, and a HDD enclosure. Thank you all, especially Jason, for your help in getting me to where I'm at now. I think that the plan is to removed the platter drive which comes with the X240 and put that into the HDD enclosure to make it into an external HDD and to put the SSD into the laptop and do a fresh install. I'm thinking that it might be a good idea to first test out all of the hardware to make sure it's all working properly with the Windows system which comes on the platter drive first, before tinkering with stuff and not knowing if a problem is related to faulty hardware or a problem with the driver. I'm not sure. I'm looking forward to this project. By the way, I have two other laptops onto which I also want to install Linux. LeRoy -- I am the Love of God, no matter what. LeRoy Diener 213-LEROYIZ 213-537-6949 www.leroydiener.com/