USB Linux setup

XDroidie626 · January 27, 2016

So I want to run CentOS on a USB HDD, reasoning for this is I want a personal machine at work but I don't want to remove the HDD on that system until I find a HDD that I can be 100% can be zeroed out (Going to look at one of our very old systems)

Anyways the idea for this is to partition my USB HDD into 2 sections, 1 where it has an readable file system by both Windows and CentOS, the second of corse will be CentOS.

But I would also like to know something else, once I have installed the system to the HDD can I then run it on something else? Say my laptop which has completely different specs (i3 vs i5) and still run it with it being stable, unlike Winows is able to (Unless USB to Go does this?)

Your thoughts on this?

Thanks

Burusutazu · January 27, 2016

So I want to run CentOS on a USB HDD, reasoning for this is I want a personal machine at work but I don't want to remove the HDD on that system until I find a HDD that I can be 100% can be zeroed out (Going to look at one of our very old systems)

Anyways the idea for this is to partition my USB HDD into 2 sections, 1 where it has an readable file system by both Windows and CentOS, the second of corse will be CentOS.

But I would also like to know something else, once I have installed the system to the HDD can I then run it on something else? Say my laptop which has completely different specs (i3 vs i5) and still run it with it being stable, unlike Winows is able to (Unless USB to Go does this?)

Your thoughts on this?

Thanks

As long as you do not install proprietary drivers, you should be able to take it with you wherever you go.

Opask · January 31, 2016

On 1/27/2016 at 8:27 AM, Burusutazu said:

As long as you do not install proprietary drivers, you should be able to take it with you wherever you go.

It probably wouldn't matter. I've have had nvidia and amd proprietary drivers running next to each other with both cards in my machine. It was totally fine.

The only issue you would have is missing a specific proprietary driver that you might need (probably only for broadcom NICs) so you would just need to install another one.