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| 2022-02-09 |
Installing operating systems directly on the Pi |
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Fans of the Raspberry Pi single board computer received some good news this week. To date, setting up a Raspberry Pi computer has typically required the user either to purchase a microSD card with a stock operating system on it or, more commonly, to download an operating system using another computer and use the second computer to write the operating system to the Pi's microSD card. In short, most people needed a second computer in order to use their Raspberry Pi. this is changing as work is going into the Raspberry Pi boot loader which will allow the device to download new operating systems and write them directly to the Pi's storage drive without requiring another computer to be part of the processs. "Until today you've always needed to use another computer to run Raspberry Pi Imager, or to run something similar, to let you flash your operating system onto an SD card when you get a new Raspberry Pi. But how do you get the operating system onto an SD card if you don't have another computer in the first place? It's the classic chicken and egg problem, and we've just solved it." This should allow people to download operating system images, like those for Raspberry Pi OS, directly to the Pi. A post from Peter Harper shares the details on this work in progress. |
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