Install HA on old laptop without UEFI

[aceindy]

What if…
you start with a very old version (pre-uefi) and upgraded from there?
or manually

Download older version of hassbian

I don’t know of any way - I didn’t know it automatically updated However, you can install a specific version of HA on to your version of hassbian by using the manual update method, but specifying the version in the pip install line, for instance pip3 install homeassistant=0.68.1