> On Oct 24, 2015, at 11:30, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Meantime I bought a USB adapter to hold the SSD for a few bucks from the > local store that we love to hate. I put the SSD into it, plugged it > into the Thinkpad and booted to it. I was pleasantly amazed. Everything > was exactly as it had been - even the video came up perfectly. I didn't > need to tweak anything. I was completely back in business and I > suffered no downtime at all.
This happens because some distros of linux, unlike some other user mode operating systems, installs all the drivers, and sorts out the differences during boot. I used to leverage that in the engineering lab I ran. I could image a hard drive, or swap a drive from one system to another, and rarely worry about what chipset was in use for anything the system was doing. It just worked.(tm) — Russell Johnson [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
