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I wish something like that existed for various single-board computers that are getting popular nowadays. Any sort of flexibility would be welcome, writing big images on a SD card gets old very fast. Yes, many things probably won't boot, but I'd rather find out that they don't quickly.
The latest rPi can do PXE (ethernet boot) over wired ethernet (no support for PXE over WiFi yet).
I have set this up and it is pretty cool to quickly boot images over the network this way, and experiment with them without having to write SD cards. In fact: my rPI doesn't even have a SD card inserted.
The ethernet performance in the RPI is still poor though, the USB-to-ethernet bridge is suboptimal.
I guess we're almost back at running RPi 'terminals' on our desktop and have a centralised (cloud?) storage solution to boot from and persist files to. We're almost back at 90's level computing ;-)
I don't know about other ones, but you can netboot the Raspberry Pi 3: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberry...
I use an APU, but with any netboot small computer, I find it easier to netboot a simple linux build and dd the image via netcat, vs plugging and unplugging the card.
My notes for pfsense: receiving machine: netcat -l 2222 | gzip -dc | dd of=/dev/sda
sending machine: dd if=pfSense-2.2.4-RELEASE-2g-i386-nanobsd.img.gz |netcat 10.10.10.101 2222