First let me say THANKS!!! for such an awesome project - I love dietpi and have it running on 5 different pi’s right now.
One of those runs my owncloud instance on an external 1TB USB drive - I chose the option to have dedicated USB drive on setup. I got my rpi3 the other day, read through the forums and found that because of the new firmware that I would have to download the new image and install for the raspberrypi3 directly - I can’t just swap the sd card from the pi2.
This leaves me in a precarious situation - if I want to use my USB Harddrive as a dedicated drive still - dietpi wants to format it and all my owncloud data would be gone. What’s the best path to make this happen?
Easy method:
If you have no plans to use the built-in WiFi or Bluetooth on the RPi 3, you can simply unplug the SD card from your RPi 2 and put it into your RPi 3. Make sure you have the dedicated USB drive attached, before you power on .
If the RPi 3 doesnt boot up, plug it back in the RPi 2 and run the following command to update firmware:
rpi-update
. Plug back into the RPi 3 and boot up again.
Harder method:
If you plan to use inbuilt WiFi and BT on the RPi 3, start on a fresh DietPi installation. When it asks to format your drive, simply say “no”. DietPi will then use your existing drive and filesystem. Then its just a case of installing Owncloud again and forcing a scan to update the database.
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