Guys, you did a good work. Thanks! The image flashing was straightforward with the etcher tool. Well documented!
I tried DietPi (on a Raspberry Pi 3) because I have a small SD card with 1 GB. I learned that I have to remove the file /var/swap, otherwise I cannot install anything. By default it was created as a big 500 MB file and I couldn’t do anything. Please fix this problem.
I find it very annoying that you need to have at least 500 MB free disk space to install software from the dietpi-software tool. To avoid this problem I added an USB stick (2 GB extra), and copied and symlinked back /var/lib/apt and /var/cache/apt on it. Also, I symlinked several other folders (/usr/share, after installing Chromium also /usr/lib/chromium-browser, /usr/lib/firefox-esr, and others) to the stick. In this way I can use much more space than 1 GB, even if I don’t have a bigger SD card.
As I played with DietPi the whole day, I collected some other issues:
- Chromium cannot start without desktop when setting it in dietpi-autostart. The system wants to start a program “chromium” but it does not exist. Instead, “chromium-browser” is the name of the executable! This should be fixed.
- Kodi works nice, but there is no audio via headphone jack (I use HDMI for video output but not for audio). The audio in Chromium works, but it is a bit noisy. I know that this is a Raspbian issue as well.
- YouTube videos in Chromium are rather slow, but this is an issue with the Raspberry Pi hardware, I guess. Actually, Kodi was playing the YouTube videos in HD mode almost without any lagging.
- Netflix (in Chromium) was complained about an old version of an old plugin. I did not try updating Chromium (it wanted to be updated), I guess, there is no way to do that. Actually, Chromium complained about running as root (with the --no-sandbox option). This looks a bit unelegant.
Kind regards,
Zoltan