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I wish something like that existed for various single-board computers that are getting popular nowadays. Any sort of flexibility would be welcome, writing big i
by xaduha 8y ago
I wish something like that existed for various single-board computers that are getting popular nowadays. Any sort of flexibility would be welcome, writing big images on a SD card gets old very fast. Yes, many things probably won't boot, but I'd rather find out that they don't quickly.
- LeonM 8y agoThe latest rPi can do PXE (ethernet boot) over wired ethernet (no support for PXE over WiFi yet). I have set this up and it is pretty cool to quickly boot images over the network this way, and experiment with them without having to write SD cards. In fact: my rPI doesn't even have a SD card inserted. The ethernet performance in the RPI is still poor though, the USB-to-ethernet bridge is suboptimal. I guess we're almost back at running RPi 'terminals' on our desktop and have a centralised (cloud?) storage solution to boot from and persist files to. We're almost back at 90's level computing ;-)
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- PyroLagus 8y agoI don't know about other ones, but you can netboot the Raspberry Pi 3: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberrypi/bootmodes/net.md https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberry...
- pnutjam 8y agoI use an APU, but with any netboot small computer, I find it easier to netboot a simple linux build and dd the image via netcat, vs plugging and unplugging the card. My notes for pfsense: receiving machine: netcat -l 2222 | gzip -dc | dd of=/dev/sda sending machine: dd if=pfSense-2.2.4-RELEASE-2g-i386-nanobsd.img.gz |netcat 10.10.10.101 2222
- namibj 8y agoreplace dd with shell redirection or cat...