08-07-2022, 08:48 PM
@Spacebar
Pi4Bs do require decent cooling. What's the right solution depends on how they are encased. I've run a bare board with a passive heat sink on the CPU with good results; I've used Argon One cases, which are themselves essentially large heat sinks, with good results; I've never tried a fan or other active cooling solution.
As for moOde and RetroPie, have you looked into multiboot solutions? The Pi4B in particular works well with network booting. That opens up the possibility of using that Ubuntu NAS as the network server. There's also BerryBoot and the RPF's own NOOBS, either of which also work with some other model Pis. Here's one quick overview.
One obvious fly in the ointment is moOde's first-boot process. It assumes that there is unallocated space at the end of the memory card the moOde image was burned to and expands moOde's root file system to fill the card. You'd have to develop a workaround for this bit (e.g., poke it in the eye with a sharp stick, as my grandmother would say) and ensure whichever booting solution you chose contains an appropriately sized moOde file system from the get go. Something like that.
Don't know what else might get in the way of successful multibooting but it seems worth investigating. Not only Pis (even the Pi400, at least here) but other SBCs I like such as various Odroid models have become either 2expensium or unobtanium in recent times.
Regards,
Kent
Pi4Bs do require decent cooling. What's the right solution depends on how they are encased. I've run a bare board with a passive heat sink on the CPU with good results; I've used Argon One cases, which are themselves essentially large heat sinks, with good results; I've never tried a fan or other active cooling solution.
As for moOde and RetroPie, have you looked into multiboot solutions? The Pi4B in particular works well with network booting. That opens up the possibility of using that Ubuntu NAS as the network server. There's also BerryBoot and the RPF's own NOOBS, either of which also work with some other model Pis. Here's one quick overview.
One obvious fly in the ointment is moOde's first-boot process. It assumes that there is unallocated space at the end of the memory card the moOde image was burned to and expands moOde's root file system to fill the card. You'd have to develop a workaround for this bit (e.g., poke it in the eye with a sharp stick, as my grandmother would say) and ensure whichever booting solution you chose contains an appropriately sized moOde file system from the get go. Something like that.
Don't know what else might get in the way of successful multibooting but it seems worth investigating. Not only Pis (even the Pi400, at least here) but other SBCs I like such as various Odroid models have become either 2expensium or unobtanium in recent times.
Regards,
Kent
