pinn VS sdm

For dual booting look to PINN - I prefer one OS per card as there is less chance of a card error hitting lots of operating systems / running out of space / deleting the wrong partition.

You should be able to achieve that by using PINN. It's an operating system and boot manager for Raspberry Pis (plus more features that you probably don't need).

You could look at PINN https://github.com/procount/pinn as the author is active on the Pi forum.

PINN is a can be found at https://github.com/procount/pinn

After more reading: The "Raspberry Pi Imager" seem to have something similar called "PINN". Is PINN similar to BerryBoot? https://github.com/procount/pinn/blob/master/README_PINN.md

I would not use NOOBS at all now - its way old and PINN is a better option if you do not use multiple SD cards.

You could have a look at https://github.com/gitbls/sdm for image management or PINN as a NOOBS replacement.

NOOBS is deprecated and no longer maintained or recommended by Raspberry Pi. If you still want a NOOBS like installer then use PINN which is an enhanced fork of NOOBS that is still under active development.

I would look to use SDM from Benn on Github https://github.com/gitbls/sdm as this will give you more control and configuration options.

As previously mentioned, you can network install or boot them. If you start down that path and find it to be a bit "much", you might want to consider https://github.com/gitbls/sdm.

Possibly look at Ansible or SDM

Slightly OT to your question, but if you're going to distribute an IMG you probably want it to be virgin (not ever booted), so you don't accidentally leave something important there. Have a look at https://github.com/gitbls/sdm, which makes it easy to customize an unbooted IMG exactly the way you want it.

Hi, what "is not so easy to get it work"?? If you're referring to using sdm and you're having a problem with it, please open an issue on the sdm github https://github.com/gitbls/sdm and I'll help you get it working.

You can see the code at https://github.com/gitbls/sdm/blob/master/sdm-cportal. Oh, and it's written so that it can work with or without the rest of sdm, which it's part of.

There is a tool on Github (and supported on the Pi forums) by bls called SDM (here) that can be modified to set up anything you want but I think that's Linux only.

Seehttps://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=231762 for a description of the technique and https://github.com/gitbls/sdm for a tool that uses this technique to customize and manage IMGs and SD Cards, as well as "going inside" the IMG with the sdm --explore command.

Non-beginners might want to take a look at https://github.com/gitbls/sdm.