The first three posts “Using a RAID system with DietPi – part 1”, “- part 2” and “- part 3” dealt with the setup of, the access to and the management/diagnosis of a RAID system with an example of a RAID 5. This blog post deals with the maintenance tasks, e.g. changing RAID disks, changing […]
Debian Bookworm: Testing the upcoming Debian release
Debian 12 Bookworm is expected to be released this summer. We want to give you a brief preview and info how to test it, either using our DietPi Bookworm images, or by upgrading your running DietPi Bullseye system.
DietPi on RISC-V StarFive VisionFive 2 SBC
This blog post gives an overview about what can actually be done with a system consisting of the brand new RISC-V single board computer VisionFive 2 from StarFive. The article will be updated whenever new insights and findings are present.
DietPi LXC containers in Proxmox
This blog post describes how to generate your own DietPi LXC container template in the Proxmox VE. Based on the template you can then instantiate LXC containers. 1. Overview The generation is done in the following steps: The basis for your LXC container is a Proxmox DietPi VM which you want to convert to a […]
Using a RAID system with DietPi – part 3
The first two posts “Using a RAID system with DietPi – part 1” and “- part 2” dealt with the setup of and the access to a RAID system with an example of a RAID 5. This blog post deals with the basic management and diagnosis tasks, e.g. renaming the RAID and checking options.These tasks […]
Using a RAID system with DietPi – part 2
The first post “Using a RAID system with DietPi – part 1” dealt with the setup of a RAID system with an example of a RAID 5. This blog post deals with the usage, i.e. managing the access to the RAID from outside via NFS, Samba and FTP. Table of contents 1. Introduction The access […]
Using a RAID system with DietPi – part 1
RAID storage systems can act as a backup system with a low failure rate. Setting up such a system is no rocket science and is described in a step by step manner below. The objective is to achieve an economical NAS storage for access via NFS (network file system), Samba or others. It shall be […]
Use DietPi-Backup in your multi-device environment
This blog post deals with the DietPi tool DietPi-Backup, it describes the procedure of the backup/restore, especially if you have several DietPi systems which you want to backup on a central backup server. It shall be shown, The basic backup/restore functionality was described in the recommendable video “Raspberry Pi Backup Einrichtung – ganz easy mit […]
Discover exciting X11 desktops for your DietPi
In the last blog entry Install a DietPi desktop system in a few steps, the installation of a DietPi system with a graphical user interface is described. DietPi has built in installation options for a couple of desktop variants (Xfce, MATE, LXDE, LXQt, GNUstep).This blog post describes how to install further desktop variants and how […]
Install a DietPi desktop system in a few steps
The DietPi base installation basically focuses on headless resp. machines without a graphical user interface (GUI) dealing with server applications like Nextcloud, Pi-hole, media servers, etc.Generally, an installation of a graphical desktop via dietpi-config and dietpi-software is not difficult, but with the DietPi built-in automated installation process this can be simplified. This blog article shows […]