Use sdm to Completely Configure Your Raspberry Pi OS Before You Install
Raspberry Pi OS is a Debian-derived operating system designed to help beginners and experts to get the most out of the Raspberry Pi hardware, while offering an easy-to-use desktop experience. Although you can do some basic customization before inserting your storage media into the Pi for the first time, by using the official Raspberry Pi Imager tool, you may wish that you could do more. With sdm, an SD card management tool, you can. Here’s how to do it.
Why Use sdm to Create Customized Disk Images for Your Raspberry Pi?
Raspberry Pis are cheap (when you can find them) single-board computers with top-notch components and an emphasis on learning and DIY software and electronics projects. They’re perfect for school computer labs and for deploying as standalone servers.
If you’re deploying multiple Raspberry Pi computers in a school or other organizations, you’ll find that after flashing a Raspberry Pi OS image to an SD card or SSD, you end up installing the same set of software packag over and over again. You’ll set up the same services, mount the same extra drives, and add the same aliases to the .bashrc file. It can become very tedious, very quickly.
sdm is a tool which makes it easy to build consistent, ready-to-go storage media for the Raspberry Pi, containing the software you need and the configuration you choose.
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