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Re: [LUG] External hard drive
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- Subject: Re: [LUG] External hard drive
- From: Eion MacDonald <eionmac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2016 12:01:04 +0100
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On 21/10/2016 18:42, Simon Waters wrote:
>
> On 21 Oct 2016, at 17:34, <stephen.amor@xxxxxxxxxx> <stephen.amor@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> If you install onto an external drive, it will only install and then load the
>> drivers for that computer
>
> You sure, in the past most distros loaded a general purpose kernel and the drivers
> were all in modules. It seemed insane but each boot it checked for absent buses.
>
> It will likely lack any specialised firmware and graphics card support, but that
> is different from not working.
>
> May have changed, busy fighting the other end of the software stack these days..
>
I tried to achieve this a few years ago, but found problem in different
base computers. I tried using it when I explained things to folk on
their computers. I found the best solution was to use a Live Linux on a
USB key, with an external hard disk containing a lot of other stuff
which eventually became an extension (2nddocs) to my live Linux as
/home/user/documents/2nddocs. This worked ok.
--
regards
Eion MacDonald
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