Dietpi will Be Great Choice For Surface RT Your Helpe Is Needed

Hi to all DietPi Developers And Members its my first post her.
i have tested your OS on my raspberry pi and its one off the best
And Since The first time i have visited the Open Surface RT Home
And found out that the Raspberry Pi OS is one of the best os to work on the old windows Rt devices i knew That DietPi OS will Do Better .
My knowledge in this matter is week But im a good learner and i have one surface RT
first generation in good condition i can do the testing and video capture
So please please Can someone Help me to make this Happen it’s only the boot section
that will be edited i thik viste the link Raspberry Pi OS

Please

Welcome to our community.

You could try using our installation scripts on top of a working Raspberry OS installation Supported hardware - DietPi.com Docs

Did I understand right that there is a Raspberry Pi OS version which runs on the ARM Surface RT? I’m only aware of the one for RPi itself and one for x86. However, if there is any Debian based distro running on it, in case just the regular Debian, you can convert it to DietPi with the linked guide.

Hi everyone im so thankful for your contribution
ok to give more explanation all the work was done by the group at [Open Surface RT]
and they are ho made this happen
i went by their expectations and now i can run the normal raspian os with disktop on
my MS Surface RT
But out off my experience with Dietpi i knew that Dietpi will be the best on this device
if i was able to run the wifi on clean minimal Debian/Raspbian installation
then i will try what Joulinar thankful suggested
But if Someone would help to create a ready to flash img it would be perfect
iw will add the link for the working image of the raspian os made By nope
on youtube to make it more clear

thanks again

Okay that like a highly customised image that has nothing to do with Raspberry Pi OS (in it’s core) aside of using the RPi desktop which is a customised LXDE.

That one doesn’t seem like a good basis to create a DietPi from. I suggest to check whether there is a plain Debian image for it or whether even the official Debian installer works. That will be much cleaner and trustworthy.

EDIT: I might be wrong. Raspberry Pi OS is somehow listed as officially supported OS but I’m pretty much confused why since it’s an entirely different SoC, the RPi bootloader and kernel cannot work, of course. This doesn’t make sense to me at all :smile:. Using plain Debian should be a much cleaner result.

Dear MichaIng

IF you just visited this link How to

you will see
that they are adding some files to the boot section of the sd card(usb device)
and injecting the kernel inside the root filesystem

but this process didn’t work for Diet pi i don’t know why

because DietPi installer will remove all software that is unexpected and will try to use plain RPi OS :wink:

Okay that’s like a didend i will try it the hard way .

Hi everyone i have managed to make it happens

now the only thing missing is wifi because i had to miss the first boot wifi setup

iam having the same problem

as soon that trouble is fixed i well upload the image her

I guess your case is different as you are running a complete different hardware. Maybe there as some drivers missing for your device

thanks for reply
nothing is missing i have managed to start wifi using

sudo apt install network-manager network-manager-gnome
sudo service dhcpcd stop 
sudo service network-manager restart

but what im looking for is to make it happens with default Diet pi first time setup
to build as clean as possible image for others to use

Network Manager is a conflicting tool and will not work together with DietPi config scripts. Because we use ifupdown to manage network connections. Means, from now on, you need to use Network Manager instead of dietpi-config

Because the Surface RT dose not have lan card . its only has the sd8797_uapsta wifi
and if i want to Give people a warking image it should have the default wifi card working from the first setup

it is just to keep in mind. ifupdown is conflicting software title for network-manager. Usually you should have got a warning during apt install

ok would you please advice how to make it works withe ifupdown without the need for other pkg

the dietpi-config show that ther are no wifi card

They write in the tutorial:

Wifi doesn’t work

Make sure that you copied the modules forlder to /lib/modules
Make sure that the kernel version and the modules version do match
Get the modules folder name and compare it to uname -r

Did you do that? The question is, will the module version match the current kernel version?

yes i did it’s from the same version .
and i have used the latest DietPi_RPi-ARMv6-Bullseye .

For customers of course you cannot make WiFi working OOTB without knowing their SSIDs and WiFi passwords, which is what you can enter into dietpi-wifi.txt to have it working on first boot. You could enable WiFi modules/firmware already, but the final setup would then need to be done by end user via dietpi-config.

So if you have customers which need desktop/GUI-integrated tools to do that, indeed NetworkManager is the choice. For preparing the image, enable WiFi once, so the modules are not blacklisted and in case of RPi onboard WiFi is enabled. Then remove the respective line in /etc/network/interfaces and/or purge ifupdown so that it doesn’t interfere.