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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
Installing DietPi on an Apple Mac mini
An Apple Mac mini is a robust and stable PC based hardware with a low power consumption which can be used to install DietPi. Compared to Raspberry Pi SBCs, the PC based hardware gives enough options for larger memory, higher computational power and built in storage options.This blog described how DietPi is installed on this […]
Moving a running DietPi system to a USB stick/disk or an onboard eMMC
The Raspberry Pi family typically boots from an SD card plugged to the system. To avoid SD card lifetime issues, these systems can run from an connected USB resp. USB disk stick or – on some Pi derivatives – from an onboard eMMC flash memory. Lifetime issues may occur from the fact that the number […]