Re: laptop installs
"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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