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   The Natural Philosopher to All   
   Re: It is now very nearly impossible to    
   01 Feb 24 14:40:31   
   
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   On 01/02/2024 06:32, 68g.1499 wrote:   
   > On 1/30/24 6:05 PM, Scott Alfter wrote:   
   >> In article ,   
   >> Chris Green   wrote:   
   >>> I can't us Pi Imager because it's very broken on Ubuntu:-   
   >>   
   >> Sounds like something you should take up with the Ubuntu packagers.  I   
   >> maintain a Gentoo ebuild for rpi-imager (it's in my overlay...sudo   
   >> eselect   
   >> repository enable salfter && sudo emaint sync -r salfter), and it   
   >> works like   
   >> a champ.   
   >>   
   >> More recently, I've migrated my print server (an ancient RPi Model B)   
   >> from   
   >> Raspbia^H^H^H^H^H^H^HRPi OS to Alpine, and it's running headless.  The   
   >> Alpine install needed to be done on a spare Raspberry Pi, but once it   
   >> was up   
   >> and running with ssh access, I was able to do the rest of the setup   
   >> over the   
   >> network.  Once I had it configured as I wanted it, I brought the   
   >> MicroSD card   
   >> over to another computer to image it and shipped the image home so I   
   >> could   
   >> blast it onto an SD card.  It's a much lighter-weight system   
   >> now...could put   
   >> it on a 128MB SD card, if I had one that small. :) The server runs   
   >> headless,   
   >> with just two printers, a network cable, and a power supply plugged in.   
   >   
   >   
   >    Ok ... I'm not gonna ask why you'd want a completely separate   
   >    print server, based on an old Pi, rather than just printing   
   >    directly from/to whatever   :-)   
   >   
   It avoids massively long printer cables obviously, when you have a   
   pre-existent network of some sort...   
      
      
   r worse) code.   
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