Running dietpi (and wordpress) from external SSD

General Discussion
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I just bought a SSD drive and attached it to my Raspberry 3b. Had some struggle with it before it actually worked.

Now I want to remove the SD-card from the PI and run everything DietPi from the SSD. How/what do I need to do? The drive is already mounted and the swap file and userdate is on it.

2

best would be to flash DietPi directly on the SSD. Maybe this could help https://dietpi.com/forum/t/raspberrypi4-rpi4-upgrading-from-existing-sd-card-setup-to-boot-from-ssd/4555/1

3

Thanks. Will check this out, and report back if the need is there

4

Unfortunately, that is for a RPi 4 and not for 3b. Going to look further.

5

Well migration your system to SSD is exactly same. You just need to check if you are running a 3B or a 3B+. Depending on this USB mass storage boot would need to be enabled first. But nothing that couldn’t be managed https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/computers/raspberry-pi.html#usb-mass-storage-boot

As DietPi is a RPi OS all can be done on current installation.

BTW: For RPi3B (non plus) USB boot could be enabled as follow

/boot/dietpi/func/dietpi-set_hardware rpi3_usb_boot enable