Re: a question of installing linux operating system on external hard drive

From	Balwinder S Dheeman <bdheeman.SANSPAM@outlook.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: a question of installing linux operating system on external hard drive
Date	2014-08-24 18:06 +0530
Organization	Abbe International
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On 08/22/2014 08:41 PM, newbie2 wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am very interested in installing Linux Ubuntu on an external hard
> drive. Ideally, I hope that when I plug this HD to my desktop which
> has Windows 7 operating system, then I can use Ubuntu to do my 
> programming work and all my code, database mysql, Eclipse, Java etc
> all are installed at the external hard drive. Then I can unplug it 
> from this desktop and plug into a laptop, I can continue my work 
> left at Desktop. Is this possible?
> 
> Desktop hardware and the laptop hardware are different, e.g. video
> card, wifi card etc. So when the external HD is with the desktop and
> I have installed Linux video card drivers(to the external HD) for 
> the desktop hardware. When with the laptop, the previously installed
> drivers may not work with laptop video card or other hard ware. How 
> to solve this problem?

If you're not religiously tied to Ubuntu, better try Porteus which a
Live CD/USB/SD-Card distribution based on Slackware. The changes and, or
user's data can permanently or on-demand saved to a designated ext[2-4]
or POSIX compliant partitions or an image file on FAT/NTFS partitions.

-- 
Balwinder S "bdheeman" Dheeman (http://bdheeman.BlogSpot.in/)

"Working together, works! The proof is GNU/Linux and F/LOSS Projects;
Do you too voluntarily work on or contribute to making any difference?"

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a question of installing linux operating system on external hard drive newbie2 <xsli2@yahoo.com> - 2014-08-22 08:11 -0700
  Re: a question of installing linux operating system on external hard drive Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2014-08-22 10:37 -0500
  Re: a question of installing linux operating system on external hard drive Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-08-22 17:17 +0000
  Re: a question of installing linux operating system on external hard drive newbie2 <xsli2@yahoo.com> - 2014-08-22 11:06 -0700
    Re: a question of installing linux operating system on external hard drive Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2014-08-22 14:30 -0500
    Re: a question of installing linux operating system on external hard drive Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-08-22 19:34 +0000
    Re: a question of installing linux operating system on external hard drive Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2014-08-22 20:16 +0000
  Re: a question of installing linux operating system on external hard drive floyd@apaflo.com (Floyd L. Davidson) - 2014-08-22 10:08 -0800
  Re: a question of installing linux operating system on external hard drive Andreas Kohlbach <aug14.8.ankman@spamgourmet.com> - 2014-08-22 15:20 -0400
    Re: a question of installing linux operating system on external hard drive newbie2 <xsli2@yahoo.com> - 2014-08-22 12:28 -0700
      Re: a question of installing linux operating system on external hard drive Andreas Kohlbach <aug14.8.ankman@spamgourmet.com> - 2014-08-22 15:41 -0400
  Re: a question of installing linux operating system on external hard drive Balwinder S Dheeman <bdheeman.SANSPAM@outlook.com> - 2014-08-24 18:06 +0530

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