You are correct. The short answer is: NO And most of the people who respond will have no idea why it matters to you (*) and will instead assume that you are confused about some other part of the process. (*) I do get it. PS and BTW: this question has come up before. Dyed in the wool admin types (li...

Any Raspberry Pi compatible Operating System can be imaged to a suitable USB MSD, providing the model of Raspberry Pi is supporting USB Boot and the Operating System has been proven to be able to boot from USB MSD, such as Raspberry Pi OS. You would just need to "compile" your own Operating System ...

I am looking to see if there is a way to install to a USB HDD on a Pi 4 without installing from an image. I want to boot of some media, probably SD card, and do an install process to USB HDD just like I might do on x86 PC/VM hardware. Is such a thing possible? Does "installation media" even exist fo...