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by rhardih 2528 days ago
The Pi doesn't necessarily need an SD card. I'm running it on NFS, booted over the network. Works just fine. No need to worry about burning out the SD card.
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sebazzz 2528 days ago
What component supports NFS booting? The bootloader is on the SD card, right?
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mbreese 2528 days ago
I believe the RPi can boot directly from the network, but it does require a one-time config change that requires booting from the SD card once. After that, the SD card isn’t required for future reboots.

(Or actually even supported, IIRC)

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geerlingguy 2528 days ago
I don't think the Pi 4 supports netboot yet[1].

[1] https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberry...

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mbreese 2528 days ago
I should have mentioned that this was currently only for the 3.

Hopefully that will get fixed soon.

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