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.worldEnglish
    71·
    2 years 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.

  • nevalem@programming.devEnglish
    6·
    2 years 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.

  • B0rax@feddit.deEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    You understand that when you install it on the SD card and want to run it, then windows will not run at the same time, yes?

    The other option would be a Virtual machine like someone else suggested.

  • baked_tea@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years 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

  • satanmat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years 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