Hey! Long story short, I’m interested in Self hosting stuff and want to wet my feet a bit with a spare laptop I have. The main nvme drive is used by windows 10, and it has a 250 Go SD card.

I’ve been trying to install TrueNAS Scale and YunoHost on the SD card to no avail. I have seen people on forums say they had stuff installed on an SD card but I’m starting to doubt it.

Can it work? I think I need some help but I don’t know what info might be useful.

  • breadsmasher@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Install an OS on the card to boot from? Its the same process as making a bootable live USB stick.

    The performance will be poor in comparison to an SSD and will reduce the longevity of the card due to many r/w operations.

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    1 year ago

    Maybe I’m misunderstanding the purpose or goal but wouldn’t this be perfect use case for a virtual machine? I’m surprised no one has suggested that. A one off temporary, easily reverted back to pristine with snapshots sounds like exactly what you would want for testing something like this out.

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    1 year ago

    Yes our servers running esxi boot from an SD card

    But. That’s not to say you won’t have issues.

    As others are saying distro matters

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    1 year ago

    Not exactly the answer for the question you ask but you mention yunohost… i recently installed it and it was impossible from their iso. Install debian first and then use it to install yunohost there