When you select PiHole for installation on DietPi, it will do the following:
When you say Yes, it will take you directly there:
We could not make it any easier for you.
Now if you are following Jake’s guide (who is using a less known/newer method of applying static IP’s via dhcpcd5), you should ask Jake for support.
For everyone else who wants to install PiHole on DietPi, DietPi will install and configure your system with the ability to set a static IP before installation, using the /etc/network/interface method that has been used for years and provides exactly the same end result.
I’m sad reading your words.
Firstly, you are supposing I don’t know what I’m doing, or whatever. Secondly, I think you think I want to blame DietPi, that’s not the case; on the contrary, I say what I say because I desire to use DietPi for my projects.
At the end of the day, a simple post of the following would of sufficed:
I want to install PiHole manually on DietPi without using the optimized installation available in dietpi-software. The guide i am following uses dhcpcd5 which is not on the DietPi image. Heres the link to the guide: http://jacobsalmela.com/block-millions-ads-network-wide-with-a-raspberry-pi-hole-2-0/.
I would appreciate any support.