I've talked a bit about Raspberry Pis (and the lack of them lately), but they have a littke buddy contoller called the Pico Pi. Unlike the other bigger Pis like the 4 or the Zero, this little guy doesn't run a whole Operating System (OS) but really only one program …
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Bit of development and watching some container stuff
So, I decided to whip up a quick project and as usual a simple scope has managed to get a bit complicated. I wanted to build a simple tool so my learners could be quizzed, but I had to build in bits so that multi-answer is doable. I started simple …
read moreNetbooting step two - fiddling with NFS
My Raspberry Pi Netboot is getting stuck and I'm not sure why. At the point where I think it should be NFS mounting the file system, it stops, but not with a "can't mount root FS" panic, but it seems like it's in never never land. Now, maybe this is …
read moreNetbooting - the first steps
You'd think I don't have experience with netbooting, but you'd be wrong. I haven't done so in a number of years, so I'm a bit rusty, though. I haven't done so for an ARM based architecture yet, but not for long. I did get the remote server set up, and …
read moreWrinkle in the Raspberry pi
I've got two shiny new Raspberry Pi 4s, and I want to install a version of Kubernetes onto it. Easy, right? Umm, not so fast. I have lots of USB power adapters, but the Pi needs a USB-C, and most of mine are not that. I do have a couple …
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