There's approximately zero chance that I would ever actually do this. What I've learned here is that I'm just not a very good fit with the Raspberry Pi. Getting back to the sarcastic post, if I had a Time Machine and knew what I know now I never would have purchased Raspberry Pies. I know most will disagree, but it seems to me to be the height of folly to have a computer that requires you to keep a manual log of changes and which requires you to build a brand new boot drive in order to upgrade the OS. My very big mistake.Get another Pi and SD card. Set up (in turn) a test system that functionally replicates the attached hardware one of your working Pis. Load the current OS to the new SD card. Load in everything you think the Pi being replicated has on it. Test the new Pi/config. When everything works, swap the SD card into the "production" Pi and move on to the next Pi. Take full notes and repeat as needed. Plan to do this every two to four years.
So, instead of upgrading I will be looking for alternatives to the Pi.
I won't be reading this thread anymore, but thanks to everyone who contributed, including those who wrote things that I needed to know; even if they were a bit discomforting.
Possibly, a couple of Mac minis will do the trick for me and my rather limited abilities.
Cheers.
That is quite comical.
To compare a $50 SBC running free software written and maintained by volunteers to a $2000+ system made of proprietary and closed hardware and software by a humongous global corporation is the pinnacle of absurdity and explains quite well the misguided expectations.
Threatening to not use a pi ever again as if that was going to cause the Pi people to tremble in fear of going out of business because that one guy in the internet didn't know what he was doing amuses me to no end. Every time.
For everybody else:
Ansible
Repeatable install after install after install after install with only minor updates to your playbooks here and there as dependencies change with upgrades.
Statistics: Posted by memjr — Fri Oct 25, 2024 12:40 pm