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peak sand Mar 28, 2025, 2:53 PM

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It should work fine with Mint. About the only thing you may have issues with is if one computer has Nvidia graphics and the other doesn't

peak sand Mar 28, 2025, 3:37 PM

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What wifi/bt device?

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MT7902?

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Mediatek isn't helping with that one, haven't even shared the firmware

peak bluff Mar 28, 2025, 6:18 PM

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the key point here: yes you can install linux to an external storage device, and have it be bootable. BUT you need a thumbdrive usb as the installer medium

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you really, really should physically remove ANY internal drive before installing, so the bootloader for linux is guaranteed to write on the external drive's magical boot sectors

peak bluff Apr 3, 2025, 5:00 PM

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you just wrote it all works just fine. what desktop are you referring to?

peak bluff Apr 3, 2025, 5:26 PM

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if you mean another desktop computer, it could be that it wont boot the external SSD because no bootloader is on it. (why I told you to take out internal drive)

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also, Windows cant read Linux filesystems if you meant "windows desktop"

peak sand Apr 5, 2025, 12:05 PM

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Is the desktop old? Like 2014 or older?

peak sand Apr 5, 2025, 1:13 PM

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Might have to see if they both use UEFI boot

peak sand Apr 5, 2025, 1:40 PM

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Does the desktop see the drive in BIOS boot order?

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What does it descibe it as in BIOS?

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Might have to look for an option to boot uefi file

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Might be called select efi file as trusted

peak bluff Apr 5, 2025, 2:35 PM

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connect your external drive to the laptop, and boot up Mint from it. then open DISKS from start menu. then note where all the starred partitions are across all drives.

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