Read about the Ethernet booting of RPi, and got interested about it. My goal is to have a info screen system with several RPi 3s attached with HDMI to screens/televisions. Initially I thought just preparing one SD card and cloning that for each screen. Could I use Ethernet booting instead, any drawbacks in this use case? At least I'd avoid corrupted SD cards.
I'd use Chromium to show a specific URL in each screen. However, that URL is different in every screen. How would that work with Ethernet boot? Would I have to keep a separate image for every RPi in the ethernet booting server?
Re: Booting over Ethernet
You will need a bootable SD card to burn/enable netbooting , but only once. After that you can do "pure"
netbooting without any other media , just using an Ethernet cable.
As for the configuration , each Pi has a serial number so each Pi could request a customized config file
based on that. Should be a trivial to implement (famous last words ...).
ghans
netbooting without any other media , just using an Ethernet cable.
As for the configuration , each Pi has a serial number so each Pi could request a customized config file
based on that. Should be a trivial to implement (famous last words ...).
ghans
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Re: Booting over Ethernet
Thanks for reply! 