I have an old Pi hanging around doing nothing. When I originally got it it had the latest Pi OS with desktop loaded and ran like garbage, not surprisingly. So I messed with it headless for a bit, then found RISCOS as an option in Pi imager utility and that is just a neat OS. Fun to play around with for sure. But now I’m wondering what else I could use the old thing for. I see folks run Pihole on it, but I’ve already got 2 instances of Adguard Home running.

Could this handle Syncthing? Or would the data transfer be so bad it’s not worth it? Wouldn’t mind having an off-site backup device at my parents house if it would work.

Anyone else got one in their homelab?

  • @sgtgig
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    1 year ago

    Related to OP’s question: is it possible to have the 1B boot from something other than an SD card?

    I ran it as a PiHole for awhile, until it chewed through two SD cards. I’d like to use it for the GPIO functionality but I don’t want have it randomly crap out again.

    • nicman24
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      41 year ago

      Yes you have the kernel in the SD card and the root on usb

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      You may want to try sd cards designed for security cameras. They are meant to be recorded to 24/7 and have higher write endurance.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      I don’t believe so - the docs mention several ways to boot a pi but most only work for newer models.

      An option might be to boot an SD card read-only and run everything over NFS. It’s trivial to do that sort of thing with some UNIX clones (OpenBSD, for instance), but I don’t know about a modern Linux.