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Could you get a small UPS for the router? I would imagine it's not sucking down a lot of watts, should take care of momentary blips and anything less than an ho

• moffkalast 5y ago
  Or you know, just insert a $5 SD card like a normal person?
  • pmarreck 5y ago
    If you have a bunch of them, you cannot centrally manage them this way without a lot more work. Also, if they log to disk, it will wear down the SD card quickly. Netbooting wears down 0 SD cards.
    • jthrowsitaway 5y ago
      SD cards are less than optimal in Pis for general computing usage, but you could put something like iPXE on the card. That's how I'd work around the issue originally described in this thread. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPXE https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPXE
    • adastra22 5y ago
      At the tech lab I managed IT for back in college we had our own implementation of the preboot environment hacked together from Python and shell scripts on top of a nearly bare linux initrd filesystem. It would poll the router until it got an assignment, then fetch the appropriate files and boot the proper OS. We had to roll our own stuff because it was actually rsync'ing Windows hard drive images and would refresh the drive to clean state before booting every time the power cycled each morning. But you wouldn't need any of that and could probably hack together a solution that does what you want with iPXE.
• tjoff 5y ago
  Even the thought of having an aging battery isn't worth it to me. And not sure if it would help either. What I have now works for this case, but it definitely put me off using it for other projects.