Can I use the SD card port of my laptop to install a server? - eviltoast

Hey! Long story short, I’m interested in Self hosting stuff and want to wet my feet a bit with a spare laptop I have. The main nvme drive is used by windows 10, and it has a 250 Go SD card.

I’ve been trying to install TrueNAS Scale and YunoHost on the SD card to no avail. I have seen people on forums say they had stuff installed on an SD card but I’m starting to doubt it.

Can it work? I think I need some help but I don’t know what info might be useful.

  • satanmat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Yes our servers running esxi boot from an SD card

    But. That’s not to say you won’t have issues.

    As others are saying distro matters

    • Ocelot@lemmies.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Unraid works this way too. Its perfectly fine as long as you keep frequent writes off it. Use ramdisk when you need scratch space.