Re: [mh] Misterhouse on Raspberry Pi?
Brian M <[email protected]>
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The late model RPi 3s will also boot directly from a USB drive, as I have one running that way. The SD card slot is empty, and it boots fine. -Brian M. On 1/21/21 3:42 PM, Giles Godart-Brown wrote: > Though earlier pis need to ‘boot‘ off an sd card, once the initial setup is done, the usb drive becomes the root partition, it doesnt write to the sd card so wear isn’t a problem. > That being said the pi4 is superior in so many respects, e.g. usb3 makes startup much quicker > > I run my pis of small cheap ssd’s very fast, but keep a cloned image on one of the many mechanical disks I’ve collected over the years, so I can get it back up and running quickly in the case of a catastrophic disk failure. > > G > >> On 21 Jan 2021, at 23:21, Jeff Siddall via misterhouse-users <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I recently investigate this and only the Pi 4 has the ability to boot off a USB mass storage device (typically an SSD). However, I tend to agree with the other comments about not worrying too much about wearing out an SD card. If logging is relatively light and the SD card is relatively big, you won't likely end up with issues. >> >> Having said that, SD cards are not generally reliable things so always have a backup in case yours fails and you need to rebuild it. Consider running ReaR (http://relax-and-recover.org/) to make it easy to restore the Pi. >> >> Jeff >> >> >>>> On 1/21/21 11:54 AM, Gianni Veloce via misterhouse-users wrote: >>>> hi guys >>>> as my old Ubuntu laptop running MH is almost broken i am looking to move to Raspberry Pi. >>>> is there any detailed guide how to setup MH on Rpi? >>>> and are any hints to avoid the abuse of the SD card with writes from the OS and MH? >>>> Would installation on a USB drive help in this? >>>> TIA >>>> GV >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ________________________________________________________ >>>> To unsubscribe from this list, go to:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/misterhouse-users >>>> >>> >>> >>> ________________________________________________________ >>> To unsubscribe from this list, go to: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/misterhouse-users >>> >> >> ________________________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe from this list, go to: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/misterhouse-users >> > > ________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from this list, go to: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/misterhouse-users > ________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from this list, go to: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/misterhouse-users