I see, so it sounds like you copy the files instead of the entire
partition. I actually didn't know that would work, but it makes sense
that it does. It's pretty much what arch linux arm does anyways, when
you download the .tar and extract it to root. Maybe that is the easiest
way to do things.
Thank you very much for your help,
Brandon Hale
On 3/25/22 07:54, Bill Purvis wrote:
On 24/03/2022 20:52, Len Ovens wrote:
On Thu, 24 Mar 2022, Brandon Hale wrote:
Hello all,
I know this might be a weird place to ask, but thought some of you
may have some insight. I'm setting up four raspberry pis for an
installation to just loop through videos on four TVs with vlc and
openbox.
Do you think I could set up the image on one pi, and then clone them
on other sd cards for the other 3 pis? There should be no issues
with doing that, right?, especially since I don't plan on giving
them internet access. The pis all have the same size sd card too,
making this even easier. I think I'm just going to throw 32-bit arch
linux arm one of the pis, set one up the way I want, and then clone
them for the other pis.
The only problem I can see (assuming using dd to copy) is that all
USB cards can vary somewhat in size even for the same size (ssd do
this too). You may wish to make your master copy partition just a
little bit small. Even a network should not be a problem as I think
DHCP can be set up to make sure all node have unique names as well as
IPs. So streaming from a central server or making content changes
there would not be out of the question.
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Len Ovens
www.ovenwerks.net
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I'm doing something similar, though my Pis are networked. I set up one
the way I want, then use a script to
back it up to my laptop, then another script to copy it to SD cards
for the copies. I tweak the hostname
on the laptop before writing individual cards. Basically, I set up
partitions on the SD card making the
root partition fill the card, then use the 'sudo cp -x' command to
copy all the individual files. This
avoids any problem about the variations in size of the cards. If
anyone wants to pursue this, I'm
happy to email my scripts and other notes off-list. For the case
above, it's just a case of running
the two scripts, download the original card, then duplicate to the
copies.
Bill
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