Hey Nicholas!

24 Oct 16, Nicholas Boel wrote:

 TL>> My last few system have been Pi boards, so they've been dingle
 TL>> partition, no swap setups.  Swap is a bad idea on flash cards. :)

 NB> There is still internal storage (albeit not very much) storage on
 NB> those things, isn't there?

Precisly there is, but no, no storage for the admin/user. There must be some
kind of BIOS ROM, that can handle the SDcard and continue the boot process from
there. That matches your "not very much internal storage". ;)

 NB> I'm still running on 12+ year old hardware that has only needed a few
 NB> power supplies over the years. If I decide to continue the hobby
 NB> if/when sh!t hits the fan, I may indeed have to look into something
 NB> like this or a cheap hosting facility (free would be better.. lol) in
 NB> the future.

Well, the Raspberry Pi is in it's third? generation now. Check out Wikipedia
for a modell overview. And i'm pretty sure that it will be free in any case and
you will get additional money for its use. Why? Take a look at the power
consumtion of your 12+ years old hardware and compare it with the power usage
of the raspi. The raspi would save your money.

Tschuess

Kai

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