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Re: Portable Debian?

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On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 20:22:48 +0100, Joe wrote:

>I've found that a minimal installation, then dpkg --get-selections and
>--set-selections and a bit of judicious /etc copying, to be a fairly
>painless way to get a clean near-copy of an existing installation. I
>migrated a server, I think lenny or squeeze, from 32bit to 64bit
>hardware that way, and it had years of configurations built up by then,
>having started life as sarge. I did actually try a straight copy and
>then an in-place 32bit to 64bit upgrade, but the complexity quickly
>outran my gumption, and I cheated.

Sounds like a plan. I'll look into the external disk thing first. One
final question: Is it even possible to build an all-hardware system?
Different machines have different audio cips, disk controllers, etc.,
so what's the best way to ensure one of these portable builds will run
on as many varieties of hardware as possible? Or is that not a valid
consideration? Maybe what I should be doing is to build the system on
the specific piece of hardware I want to run it on? That way I know it
will run correctly.

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Portable Debian? Steve Matzura <sm@noisynotes.com> - 2016-04-25 12:30 +0200
  Re: Portable Debian? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2016-04-25 16:20 +0200
    Re: Portable Debian? Steve Matzura <sm@noisynotes.com> - 2016-04-25 20:20 +0200
      Re: Portable Debian? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2016-04-25 21:30 +0200
        Re: Portable Debian? Steve Matzura <sm@noisynotes.com> - 2016-04-27 16:50 +0200
          Re: Portable Debian? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2016-04-27 20:10 +0200
            Re: Portable Debian? Steve Matzura <sm@noisynotes.com> - 2016-04-27 21:50 +0200
              Re: Portable Debian? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2016-04-27 23:20 +0200
                Re: Portable Debian? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2016-04-28 05:20 +0200
              Re: Portable Debian? Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-04-28 00:10 +0200
                Re: Portable Debian? Steve Matzura <sm@noisynotes.com> - 2016-05-11 15:20 +0200
                Re: Portable Debian? emetib <chadbrabec@gmail.com> - 2016-05-12 01:00 +0200
                Re: Portable Debian? Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-05-12 01:30 +0200
                Re: Portable Debian? Oliver Briscbois <loki@zapto.roth.ca> - 2016-06-02 21:20 +0200
                Re: Portable Debian? Glenn English <ghe@slsware.net> - 2016-06-03 00:20 +0200
  Re: Portable Debian? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2016-04-26 04:10 +0200
    Re: Portable Debian? Steve Matzura <sm@noisynotes.com> - 2016-04-27 16:50 +0200

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