Wifi-enabled SD Cards

Scott Elcomb psema4-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Wed Aug 1 18:25:09 UTC 2012


On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 01:59:36PM -0400, Scott Elcomb wrote:
>> These are model B's so they have ethernet.  Currently Pine uses a
>> Raspbian image (with some shell scripts that modify the default setup)
>> but the goal is to roll a distribution specific to the project.
>>
>> My understanding is that the Pi will only boot from an SD card.  What
>> I'd like to do is trick it into thinking it has an SD card but have
>> the disk's image on the dev machine.
>
> Couldn't it just use NFS mount and have just the kernel on SD?

Looks like that might be the way to go:

<http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/628/how-do-i-configure-the-raspberry-pi-to-boot-with-an-nfs-root>

I'll try to hook it up on the weekend and see how it turns out.  Thanks Len!

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