Hi,
I've always impressed by the LiveCD of linux distribution since Knoppix many years ago. Once installed on a HDD, are the distrib that "generic" and can it be transfered from one PC to the next one?
During the installation, there is a "hardware installation" step. Does it install computer specific drivers? How works the driver abstraction in Linux? I am more familiar with the messy Windows...
More specifically, I plan to install Ubuntu 12.04 LTS in a few 11-years-old computers. Target is within my family but maybe also recycling center if we want to get rid of some of them.
I think it would be LXLE, a derivate of Lubuntu 12.04 but with LTS. I have to stick to 12.04 since these PC have old NV1x/NV2x GPU which is buggy with the "nouveau" driver, thus I will need outdated Nvidia proprietary drivers.
Instead of installing the same stuff everywhere many times, I would like to prepare the basic install on a VM in a more recent computer with all updates and necessary packages; and then just clone the partitions to the physical HDD of these old computers.
a) it is feasible? Are they "no go" issues?
b) how/what is to care about?
c) what will be the computer specific work after the clone?
Here what first come to my mind:
1) I plan to stick with the default generic kernel of the distrib;
2) Are the UUID of the partitions any specific to the HDD? It might be easier to stick with the old hdax scheme.
3) I wish I could find a tool/script for basic customization of step c), like changing the username and password.
4) After cloning a partition, I would probably have to update grub separately if I want to keep a windows XP aside...
5) installing the NVidia proprietary driver would be obviously in the step c).
What do you think?
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