Rasberry Pi - Is the OS on the sd card?

Prodigious · 2013-05-06 17:23:44

Hi, quick question. If I were to buy a raspberry pi and two SD cards, could I have basically two different systems? System one would be purely work, all documents etc. Then when I want to do my own thing, I would switch the sd card to the personal system, which has my own stuff on it. Does it work like that? Cheers

06-05-2013 05:23PM

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Hi, quick question.

If I were to buy a raspberry pi and two SD cards, could I have basically two different systems?

System one would be purely work, all documents etc.
Then when I want to do my own thing, I would switch the sd card to the personal system, which has my own stuff on it.

Does it work like that?

Cheers

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#2 06-05-2013 05:24PM

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Yup.

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#3 06-05-2013 05:25PM

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Simple as that? Nice one. Cheers!

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#4 06-05-2013 05:27PM

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Yep, I have 2 both with different operating systems on them. Ones a Media Player the other is for dev and generally messing around. Store most of the stuff on USB keys though as it's easier.

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#5 06-05-2013 05:27PM

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http://hackaday.com/2013/02/24/multibooting-the-raspberry-pi/

http://projectpithon.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/raspberry-pi-dual-boot-os/

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