I’m using DietPi on a Pi 4 b 2GB for quite some time.
I’m about to build my own cloud storage with nextcloud and I’m afraid my Pi is a bit weak for this task.
So I decided to use my Intel NUC (D34010WYK, i3-4010U, 8 GB) for its more potent hardware.
Because I got in love with DietPi I wanted to use this distro again.
I followed the installation guide (native PC / UEFI), booted from USB, saw the installation screen, the Clonezille screen and after that there was this:
It’s like flashing a USB stick. Connect the future system HDD to a running system and flash the image directly onto the HDD like you would do with an USB stick.
I flashed Debian netinstall to a stick, was able to boot from and saw a normal screen with the installation menu. But either option I choose from I always got this: Nextcloud
Thankfully there is an ‘automate install’. After I hit that, the status LED of the stick flashed for some time and after that the status LED of the network flashed too. Dunno how long to wait, for the installation, screen remains unchanged.
EDIT:
After some time I removed the stick, booted the PC and saw this: Nextcloud
Dunno what to do from this point.
EDIT2:
Figured out that I need preseed config for automatic install. Trying to gather more information.
EDIT3:
I’m struggling with this preseeding stuff. Dunno what to write into the config, there’s way too many options
What kind of monitor do you use?
Is it a very large one, so that a smaller could help for the first instaölation steps?
Could you connect e.g. a VGA monitor?
If yes, i propose to try the DietPi installer at first again.
Do you plan to have a dual boot system? Just out of curiosity, did you try the BIOS version? Strange that even the plain Debian netinst is not working on your system.
Well it seems I got the solution.
I loaded bios default settings (on the most current bios version) and tried again with dietpi image and now it seems to work. I got prior the Clonezilla flash screen without the odd screen.
EDIT:
Installation is done and I can see the welcome screen.