How to Boot from USB for Ubuntu 20.04
When trying to set up my Argon One cased Raspberry to boot from the USB attached M.2 drive, I ran into a little snag! I set up the Raspberry to boot from Ubuntu 64 image on the USB drive, but after I copied the entire thumb drive to the m.2, I could not boot! Turns […]
Read MoreHow to Boot a Raspberry PI 4 from Thumb Drive
So, it seems things have gotten easier with the new round of Raspberries. The Raspberry Pi 4 is capable of booting directly from USB. No longer do you need to build an SD card and then transfer everything to a thumb drive, edit cryptic boot files, and cross your fingers that you create an unbooting […]
Read MoreHow to Make Network Shared Storage with a Raspberry
Do you need an easy way to share a couple of hard drives with the family across the network? Build a Dedicated Windows Share? You may have looked into buying a Synology or a Netgear file server, but they’re expensive. You may have looked at setting up sharing on your PC, but then you have […]
Read MoreHow to Install an M.2 hard drive on a Raspberry Pi 4
Looking to remove one more speed bottleneck from your Raspberry Pi server? Me, too! That’s why I looked into SSD hard drive technology, specifically an M.2 drive, for my Raspberry Pi 4. The Pi4 has two USB3 sockets and I really wanted to take advantage of its interface speed. Those little blue sockets hold big […]
Read MoreHow to 3D print from a Raspberry Pi
Got a 3D printer? Tired of running to the printer to swap SD cards with your model files? Do you hate tying up your laptop for hours on end to print on your 3D printer? Wouldn’t it be nice if there were a print server on your home network that up could just upload files […]
Read MoreHow to Fix a Broken SD card socket on Raspberry PI
Turns out that $35 computers are fragile! Ugh. My raspberries get a lot of abuse. I’m pretty hard on stuff, but I don’t usually BREAK it! This happened when I dropped this card and it landed edgewise on its SD card. Well, waste not, want not! I gotta fix this. A little McGuyvering and I […]
Read MoreHow to Move root to a USB drive
You may have gotten burned by an SD card failing in one of your Raspberries after putting in a lot of hard work. Frustrating, I know. Don’t ask how I know! SD cards trade speed for reliability. If you want something that can stand constant reading and writing, you’re look for a USB drive. I […]
Read MoreHow to Move Raspbian swapfile to USB
Running your raspberry pi from SDcard works, but has its foibles. For one, consistent reading and writing to and from an SDcard is a sure recipe for failure. Sure, the little memory cards are fast and cheap, but they don’t take well to this kind of abuse. Especially the unrelenting i/o of a swapfile. Better […]
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