On 01/02/18 11:20, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> As it turns out I have installed debian on a usb before and booted it up
> successfully.
> It did occur to me that you could advise the new users to buy a
> raspberry pi computer
> and use that to run sid and then install the kernel on my from it.
>
> Then I would have one machine which apparently cannot be infected with
> meltdown and spectre
> with both sid and the spectre enabled kernel on it (raspberry pi) due
> its architecture
A complicated and expensive solution. The Pi being a different
architecture means you'd need to take extra steps to cross-compile the
kernel. A virtual machine, chroot, container or whatever is much cheaper
and simpler.
Richard