09-14-2020, 10:21 PM
Raspberry Pi has supported Booting from USB drives for a few years now. You just write the image to a USB stick instead of an SDCard. IIRC not all USB sticks are recognized by the Pi.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentatio...des/msd.md
The Pi 4 apparently requires an updated firmware to boot from USB device.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentatio...torageboot
And there is now an official Raspberry Imager.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/
Note, I haven't tried the new imager or firmware update on a 4.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentatio...des/msd.md
The Pi 4 apparently requires an updated firmware to boot from USB device.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentatio...torageboot
And there is now an official Raspberry Imager.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/
Note, I haven't tried the new imager or firmware update on a 4.