Booting Linux from an SD card on a diskless fitpc

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raldi
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Booting Linux from an SD card on a diskless fitpc

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I'm thinking about getting one of these as a kind of X10 home-telemetry hub and general-purpose always-on, low-power, low-computing-power machine:

http://www.amazon.com/CompuLab-fit-PC2- ... B002BO33HK

I'd like to run Linux on it, but I don't really need very much storage space. Is it possible to install Linux on an SD card in one of these machines and boot from it without any hard drive?

yogev_ezra
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Re: Booting Linux from an SD card on a diskless fitpc

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Booting from SD is currently not supported by BIOS.

bbert31
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Re: Booting Linux from an SD card on a diskless fitpc

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You can use your fitpc with a compact-flash (CF)card and a SATA/CF adaptator.
I've installed wattOS (ubuntu derivate) on the card (4GB) and the system run quite smoothly to surf and listen music :)

bertrand@fitpc:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 3.5G 1.7G 1.7G 50% /
udev 497M 240K 497M 1% /dev
none 497M 0 497M 0% /dev/shm
none 497M 288K 497M 1% /var/run
none 497M 0 497M 0% /var/lock
none 497M 0 497M 0% /lib/init/rw
/dev/sda3 52M 11M 38M 23% /boot

raldi
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Re: Booting Linux from an SD card on a diskless fitpc

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Cool. Were there any complications getting it installed?

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