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Re: laptop installs

From Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@debian-user.mail.kapsi.fi>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: laptop installs
Date 2024-08-30 09:20 +0200
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"Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> writes:

> I don't think that I'd end up with the proper drivers if I did that...

Linux distributions usually ship with almost all drivers, some specific
ones might need an extra step to install. But I've never had a driver
issue with Debian when changing hardware of an installed system, like
switching a motherboard in a desktop.

I think this kind of claim needs serious qualification but I've noticed
Andrew Cater also making it earlier.

> Digging a bit further and looking at the specs for this thing, it's a
> not-very-fast celeron dual core processor, only 2G of RAM, and 32G of
> SSD in there.  I'm a bit less inclined to bother with it than I was.
> Maybe I'll try the memory stick and see how it goes...

These can be funny. I've previously tried to boot my 2021 Samsung Galaxy
Book from a stick and got nowhere. Or got to the boot menu all right but
it only showed the internal SSD.

Recently after a little googling, some obscure web site claimed the
memory stick should be at least 32 GB and formatted exfat or ntfs. The
latter requirement probably isn't true but I tried a 128 GB stick and it
booted no problem. Amazing. This on a laptop with extremely limited
options in what goes for bios these days.

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laptop installs "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2024-08-28 03:30 +0200
  Re: laptop installs Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2024-08-28 03:50 +0200
  Re: laptop installs Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2024-08-28 04:00 +0200
  Re: laptop installs Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2024-08-28 04:10 +0200
    Re: laptop installs "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2024-08-28 17:30 +0200
      Re: laptop installs Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@debian-user.mail.kapsi.fi> - 2024-08-30 09:20 +0200
        Re: laptop installs Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2024-08-30 17:00 +0200
  Re: laptop installs eben@gmx.us - 2024-08-28 05:00 +0200
  Booting from USBs on old laptops, was Re: laptop installs David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-08-28 05:50 +0200
  Re: laptop installs Paul van der Vlis <paul@vandervlis.nl> - 2024-08-29 14:00 +0200

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