Huge thanks for the video(s), and plan to go through and test this.....but was curious if this is actually viable for what I was thinking; I have an AMD 7900XT and will be upgrading shortly to a Ryzen 5 7600x w/ DDR5 5600mt. I've got KoboldAI running, and I'm using SillyTavern for interactivity. Is it possible to run your ubuntu solution idea, and run that to host a Miniconda environment where I can put Stable Diffusion or do I mean PyTorch with the new AMD GPU drivers or Transformers or something like that? If I run it from a fast USB would it actually work? Or I won't be able to have two live OS's going at the same time? If that's the case, any suggestions - beside load everything in Linux? I've never used it and it terrifies me.....but I do like a challenge sometimes, and I loved my old MSDOS6.21 days. Anyway, appreciate any comments provided regarding my questions. Thanks!
Thanks a lot for your feedback :) Right, you can use a fast USB drive with Ubuntu, e.g. an USB3 case with an NVMe drive. Then you can setup Miniconda, ROCm and PyTorch as I have discribed in this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QEbI6v2oPvQ.html Two live OS at some time would require a virtual machine - and this virtual machine would slow down your 7900XT a lot, if it works at all.
Years ago I've used USB drives with MBR, but meanwhile most systems use UEFI/GPT instead of MBR. E.g. my NAS cannot use MBR anymore and my Windows PC uses GPT, too. If I would use an MBR USB drive with my Windows PC, I would have to switch between GPT and MBR in the BIOS settings. With PC and USB drive both using GPT, I can just press F11 after a reboot and select the required boot device.
@LehmannMr I haven't tried so far, but as 24.04 LTS was released long after the version in this vid, it would make sense for Ubuntu to include the improved setup. I'd say chance of 95%.
