Dietpi-imager - No drive with an ext4

Troubleshooting
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Hello,

I am trying to make an image of the installed system (dietpi bookworm image) so that I can replicate it. I wanted to use dietpi-imager but it gives the following error:

root@mag-com-cm4:~# ./dietpi-imager
[  OK  ] DietPi-Imager | cd /root
[ INFO ] DietPi-Imager | Checking for required APT packages: parted fdisk zerofree xz-utils
[FAILED] DietPi-Imager | No drive with an ext4, F2FS or Btrfs formatted partition found, aborting...
[ INFO ] DietPi-Imager | NB: This is the list of available block devices:
/dev/mmcblk0      29.1G 179:0
├─/dev/mmcblk0p1   128M 179:1   vfat   /boot
└─/dev/mmcblk0p2    29G 179:2   ext4   /
/dev/mmcblk0boot0    4M 179:32
/dev/mmcblk0boot1    4M 179:64
Press any key to return to menu...

i have latest dietpi image on CM4
G_DIETPI_VERSION_CORE=9
G_DIETPI_VERSION_SUB=8
G_DIETPI_VERSION_RC=0
G_GITBRANCH=‘master’
G_GITOWNER=‘MichaIng’

The only thing that was done with the installation is that I installed the image, ran it, updated it and used dietpi-imager.

Thanks for your help.

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The imager can not be executed on the same system that should be imaged.

3

ou :slight_smile: Thank you, I tried to find some documentation, but I couldn’t find anything.
So the best option is to connect the system I want to image via USB in Boot mode to another DietPi instalaltion and use dietpi-imager on the second PC
EDIT: Will there be a problem if I want to make an aarch64 installation image using the x86 version of dietpi?

4

Simply connect the SD card to another Linux based system. Doesn’t matter if it is x86 or arm

5

I always use a USB SD-card adapter like this:

That worked fine for me.