Are you a business or is this for yourself? I assume the latter, as companies should have found a method decades ago to roll-out OSses on computers.This is what I did the last time I installed. Maybe not the best way, but otherwise I forget what I'm doing and should do. Several pieces of paper and are in the process of making it better. Have everything in data form too.
I'm changing quite a lot and would like to make my own OS based on RPiOS that already has everything ready. All programs etc. However, I set up RPiOS in a few hours the way I want it. And not as often as I need to do. But I do have some Raspberry Pi. Unfortunately, I set up everyone differently.
. Maybe not the best way, but otherwise I forget what I'm doing and should do. Several pieces of paper and are in the process of making it better. Have everything in data form too.But isn't it a bit smarter to just copy/clone your existing installation when you are faced with an additional/new/other ARM computer?
Or do you like to be an unpaid software tester for RPL?
I know even decades ago one could pull a HDD from 1 PC and put that in another PC and it worked. You might edit /etc/hostname and maybe let ssh keys regenerate ( so first do: rm /etc/ssh/ssh_host_*_key*) and lookup IP address in router maybe, but that is essentially it.
It is not licensed/paid Windows or so, although technically that also works. I have used https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysin ... s/disk2vhd a few times, you can run that as a VM (in VirtualBox) or copy it to new flat blockdevice, like SSD via USB. Of course in Linux this is also possible, even more flexible and simply unattended, although you still need to push the power-on button or so and insert/connect storage. Although you can dump an image/rootfs on NVME or so via netboot on a Pi, so even if you are headless (lost your brain to microsoft) it will be a no-brainer.
Statistics: Posted by redvli — Thu Dec 04, 2025 11:27 am