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Re: [LUG] External hard drive

 

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..

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