Exactly what I did. I use the HDD as a backup or just a drive to
store pix, etc. You could install a distro onto the SSD with it in
the enclosure. You'd have a cd or thumb drive with the install
version of whichever distro. Debian is simple really. Then you
could reboot from the remote SDD and check everything out. I would
be really surprised if you had a glitch of any king. The Gnu/Linux
distros have gotten very good and easy set up.
Meeting tonite. I hope we can help LeRoy or at least smooth the processes. I don't have any current breakage, but you never know. My Xubuntu units seem to keep me working. Ted P.
On Sun, Jan 13, 2019, 10:55 PM LeRoy Diener <leroy@choosetherightside.com> wrote:
_______________________________________________Hi NMGLUG folks,
I'm planning to be there on Thu 17 Jan. I recently received in the mail three items: a Lenovo thinkpad X240 laptop, a 1TB SSD pro, and a HDD enclosure.
Thank you all, especially Jason, for your help in getting me to where I'm at now.
I think that the plan is to removed the platter drive which comes with the X240 and put that into the HDD enclosure to make it into an external HDD and to put the SSD into the laptop and do a fresh install.
I'm thinking that it might be a good idea to first test out all of the hardware to make sure it's all working properly with the Windows system which comes on the platter drive first, before tinkering with stuff and not knowing if a problem is related to faulty hardware or a problem with the driver. I'm not sure.
I'm looking forward to this project. By the way, I have two other laptops onto which I also want to install Linux.
LeRoy
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