I believe you may have misunderstood. I actually have one single drive that I can plug into any SATA/SAS or (via adapter) ATA and SCSI based computer. On it I have a boot helper, the above listed OSs, and a few others. Each is a “live” image with a similar set of diagnostic tools.
Plug it in, turn it on, figure out what does or doesn’t work. Basically tells me what works and what doesn’t, a guide of sorts for repair, salvage, or give up and scrap.
I don’t sell computers with hard drives, and have mentioned many times here it’s more a risk than any boost in value for the system is worth.
The premise here is a simple $200 SSD and a few $20 adaptors can allow you to save hundreds, thousands, of hours in lost time testing dead systems. There’s many tutorials out there on setting up such a drive. Each has it’s own spin on what tools to use for what. Personally I have ALWAYS defaulted to Debian because, to steal a MAC phrase, it just works. The others are for fallbacks. Some Dell and HP systems choke on Linux without major configuration, and work fine on windows. Micro Debian PPC is also the only pure Linux I’ve found runs on 100% of PPC computers, Mac and Amiga included.
All said when you’re staring at the quantity listed in either of these auctions a one shot boot disk is the way to go whatever OSs you choose. Pull any drive installed in the unit, plug yours in. Boot. Run diagnostics. Make decisions. Move on.
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