I found an HP Pavilion g6 Notebook at a local garage sale. 64 bit system, 4 GB RAM, 600 GB hard disk, Windows 7 Home Premium edition. $30. It did boot into Windows 7, but I had mixed results when trying to access internet sites. This may be because Windows 7 is obsolete and no longer supported. Given that I decided to install Linux. The Debian 12 installer did not recognize the Windows installation. This may be because the hard disk is MBR and there were already 4 primary partitions. I might have been able to manually rearrange the partitions and add an extended partition, but that process would have been tricky and it simply was not worth the bother for Windows 7, so I let the Debian installer wipe the drive. With Debian there were no problems connecting to the internet and my configuration process worked perfectly. I really do not need this laptop, but the price was hard to resist and I enjoy computer necromancy.

I hope to complete the process by adding another 4GB of RAM, the maximum possible, and replacing the hard disk with an SSD. HP Pavilion g6 Base Replacement describes how to open up the system, although not exactly. There are a lot of variant models of the Pavilion g6. However, they all seem to use a Crucial 4GB DDR3L-1600 SODIMM, which I have ordered.