Hey! Long story short, I’m interested in Self hosting stuff and want to wet my feet a bit with a spare laptop I have. The main nvme drive is used by windows 10, and it has a 250 Go SD card.

I’ve been trying to install TrueNAS Scale and YunoHost on the SD card to no avail. I have seen people on forums say they had stuff installed on an SD card but I’m starting to doubt it.

Can it work? I think I need some help but I don’t know what info might be useful.

  • SJ0@lemmy.fbxl.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    So there’s 2 things, I think.

    1. Does your bios allow you to boot from SD card? If so, then you can boot from the SD card and so you can install software onto the SD card directly.

    2. If you can’t boot off of the SD card, then perhaps you can install all the software on the SD card and then install a boot manager on the main drive. In this way, you boot off the main drive, then let the boot manager deal with loading the software.

    You might be disappointed by the performance of software running off an SD card, mind you.