I have 10 SSD disks that I need to load Resin onto an Intel NUC. These will all end going onto Intel NUCs, but I don’t have the all of the hardware yet, only 1. The only way I see this working is: Flash USB drive, Push hardrive into Hardware Go through installation steps Take out hardrive and Repe…

Hi @bgold , and welcome to the forums! Have you considered one of the usual hard drive cloning suspects? I’ve not personally tried it with a Resin install (yet) but Clonezilla has saved me when copying one drive to another before. If you need an exact copy it should do the trick providing you have a…

Hey @chrisys Thanks for the suggestions. If I clone the drives though, wouldn’t Resin think each drive is the same device in the dashboard? I was hoping that each hardrive would have a different device name if they pop up on Resin. Unless it’s device specific and not drive specific.

Hmm yes good point. I’ll gladly do some testing to work out the easiest way to do this for you but might take me a few days to get back to you.

I’d very much appreciate that @chrisys - thank you for your help! Just looking for a solution to prep SSD (hard drives) without having to insert them one by one into my hardware.

This sounds like a similar deployment question as my question (currently unanswered): [image] Preloading images onto devices at the factory and configuring them for specific deployment Product support I’m familiar with the Resin dashboard “Add a new device” flow for my app…

@bgold I talked to my colleague @shaunmulligan who replied to @jason10 ’s thread, he pointed out this tool which should help: https://github.com/resin-os/resin-image-flasher-unwrap The tool will extract the disk image from the flasher so you can write it directly to an SSD. Clone the repo and run .…

Thanks @chrisys I will take a look at this! Thanks so much for the guidance and appreciate the help @shaunmulligan No need to do any preloading but that’s good to know.

@chrisys I flashed an image using the tool mentioned above but it doesn’t seem to work. I’m not sure exactly why (I have no monitor) but didn’t end up appearing online after doing: ./docker-run PATH-TO-IMAGE and then flashing it using etcher

I guess the first thing to work out here is if it’s actually booting. If you’ve no monitor available can you check the devices is getting an IP address from your DHCP server and is reachable on LAN?

@chrisys So I just hooked it into the monitor and it looks like I get a GNU Grub version 2.02 bash screen. No Resin logo pops up or anything of that nature.

Mass Flashing SSD instead of USB

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Mass Flashing SSD instead of USB

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