As some of you may remember, I had some problems with LL hanging at boot up in Win8.1/LL2.8 i.e. with laptop1 in signature. This occurred either with a GPT formatted SSD (with UEFI) or an MSDOS (MBR) formatted SSD (without UEFI installed). I got the impression from someone on the forum that this problem didn't occur with a win7 or 10 dual-boot.
To test this I would therefore like to set up a win7/LL2.8 dual boot on an SSD. I have the win7 installation disk but are the updates still available? I ask this because the other day I tried a fresh install of win7 and was connected to the internet (300Mb/s) for several hours for initial updating & patching with little success - I thought updates were available until April 2019, as with LL2.8 ...
Mike