Seems like booting into PiCore could be perfect for this scenario. You could even use some of the A/B try-boot functionality that rpi have introduced into the bootloader over the past year, and basically have a kind of live recovery os. Would love to know if that could be possible.
Been mulling this over for the past couple weeks and then this HN post about PiCore pops-up literally day I was going over that askubuntu post again! I’m taking it as a sign…..
A very clever immutable Linux distro, and is the basis for the excellent PiCorePlayer, a favourite of mine to run Squeezebox clients (and/or Lyrion music server) on any Pi
I say this as someone who likes and use TinyCoreLinux and PiCore, there are some mind numbing ways TCL makes immutability work. I chalk this up to Linux and immutability being sometimes in contention with each other. Lots of Linux code make assumptions paths being writable.
Would it be possible to boot into this from an existing system and use PiCore to take a full system backup by piping dd to nc?
After reading https://askubuntu.com/questions/1416758/remote-full-system-b... I’ve been debating whether to try this out on some of my live headless pi’s that I manage remotely, but have been worried to try it without a test system first.
Seems like booting into PiCore could be perfect for this scenario. You could even use some of the A/B try-boot functionality that rpi have introduced into the bootloader over the past year, and basically have a kind of live recovery os. Would love to know if that could be possible.
Been mulling this over for the past couple weeks and then this HN post about PiCore pops-up literally day I was going over that askubuntu post again! I’m taking it as a sign…..
You can do this already from the initramfs
A very clever immutable Linux distro, and is the basis for the excellent PiCorePlayer, a favourite of mine to run Squeezebox clients (and/or Lyrion music server) on any Pi
https://picoreplayer.org/
I added rsgain to piCorePlayer. Should be in the latest repository. Great utility IMO.
Would love to hook this up to Zaparoo. I have really enjoyed using Zaparoo + Jellyfin to avoid menu diving when watching movies and shows.
TinyCoreLinux has had a special place in my heart for years. This makes me wanna break out some of the pis from nerdy storage bins.
If only TinyCore’s design sensibilities had garnered more attention over the ostree monstrosity
what’s the problem with ostree?
I say this as someone who likes and use TinyCoreLinux and PiCore, there are some mind numbing ways TCL makes immutability work. I chalk this up to Linux and immutability being sometimes in contention with each other. Lots of Linux code make assumptions paths being writable.
Note: this readme appears to be from a very old version (5.x)
This seems to be the latest release, 16.0:
https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,27681.0.html
But I don't see a comparable overview.
17.0 has preview build, but yeah the readme is still mostly relevant I think