Transferring dietpi to new/different hardware?

General Discussion
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Thinking about going from Odroid N2 to x86 hardware to have some more robust power driving the server.

I now have dietpi setup as I want it and don’t really want to do it all over again.

Some questions:

  1. Is it possible to do this preserving the current setup?

  2. Is there any reason to not use a VM? I am leaning towards ubuntu and have dietpi running in a vm so that the
    machine can also be used for other things.

Thanks

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Hi,

there is no real way to change from one architecture to another. Simply all software packages are compiled for different platforms. That’s why you are not able to simple backup/restore the system. Only way is to manually save your configs and copy them over.

You can use a VM as well, this is totally fine.

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Thanks for clearing that up.