OS install on USB-C disk on a laptop
Hello!, I have a work machine I cannot reinstall (comes with Windows), Latitude 5420. Given it has only one M2 slot, I'm exploring using a Sabrent nano USB-C external disk to run opensuse from it, but I'm wondering if it will work properly in a laptop scenario (suspend/resume). Can anybody share their experience with similar setups?. Regards, Cyrus.-
On 17/11/2021 06.19, Cyrus wrote:
Hello!,
I have a work machine I cannot reinstall (comes with Windows), Latitude 5420.
Given it has only one M2 slot, I'm exploring using a Sabrent nano USB-C external disk to run opensuse from it, but I'm wondering if it will work properly in a laptop scenario (suspend/resume).
Can anybody share their experience with similar setups?.
I installed 15.1 on a laptop, to an external disk via usb-c, but there was a internal Linux system as well. The external was intended for rescue and backup operations. I did hibernate the machine in this state, but I did not move it (nor unplug the disk), and not sure this instant if it used the internal swap space or the external. One little nuisance is that updates (to kernel or grub) would make the external the default disk system and I had a little trouble booting the internal till I reverted that detail (efibootmanager or similar name). -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from oS Leap 15.2 x86_64 (Minas Tirith))
On Wed, Nov 17, 2021, 06:25 Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
On 17/11/2021 06.19, Cyrus wrote:
Hello!,
I have a work machine I cannot reinstall (comes with Windows), Latitude 5420.
Given it has only one M2 slot, I'm exploring using a Sabrent nano USB-C external disk to run opensuse from it, but I'm wondering if it will work properly in a laptop scenario (suspend/resume).
Can anybody share their experience with similar setups?.
I installed 15.1 on a laptop, to an external disk via usb-c, but there was a internal Linux system as well. The external was intended for rescue and backup operations. I did hibernate the machine in this state, but I did not move it (nor unplug the disk), and not sure this instant if it used the internal swap space or the external.
One little nuisance is that updates (to kernel or grub) would make the external the default disk system and I had a little trouble booting the internal till I reverted that detail (efibootmanager or similar name).
-- Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from oS Leap 15.2 x86_64 (Minas Tirith))
Thanks!
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