Hello Chris!

Thursday November 07 2019 13:10, you wrote to RobH:

 > On 07/11/2019 12:52, RobH wrote:
 >> I'm having a hard time finding the information I want , so I ask
 >> here:
 >>
 >> Has anyone had success using an external disk with the pi 4, and
 >> preferably booting from it.
 >>
 >> The other option I thought about was to put some other version of
 >> Linux on it, ubuntu?, but using etcher in linux doesn't do it, as
 >> it's an iso.
 >>
 >> Thanks

 > Not a Pi4 but I have Pi3+s booting from SD card (holding only the
 > /boot partition) and 128/256Gb SSD (mSATA in mSATA to USB3 adapter) as
 > root. Quite easy if you follow the instructions. I never had much luck
 > booting directly from the USB SSD, hence the above arrangement.

 > --
 > Chris Elvidge, England


I use a 3B+ sitting in a x830 box and card with a 1TB dasd  .
The drive has the Rasbian installed and it powers up, boots to the the USB 
drive.

Every thing works - so far but I do not run it daily just as a when as I use a 
server system for day to day
development and other activities such as BBS, FTP, SQL, Apache, IBM m/f server 
or services.
This hold a lot of dasd unit giving over 10+ TB storage all in 16GB Ram with a 
modular PSU so it is light on
power needs but a Pi is a heck of a lot less :)

Did want to get a Pi4 but will not fit into the current X830 case so will wait 
until a revised X830 combo
comes out.



Vince

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