Yes - I have been running IPFire on an old desktop for several years now and I really like it.
Homebrew router?
Call it bloom if you want, but it is really mold.
benderbendingrodriguez
This is the most likely problem. There is no way the output from fdisk should be different between the two connections (the USB and SATA) if they are both working correctly.
I always referred to them as “Read Only Fridays”.
Caldera (probably around 1999).