DietPi on RPi Zero does not boot | dd wrong usage?

ARM General system
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Hello dear Community, i hope this is the right Forum as I just need some general advice for my Pi.

It was running PiHole on RaspberryOS for a time. Now I want to run it on DietPi because it needs lesser resources.

Steps I did:

  1. Downloaded the DietPi_RPi-ARMv6-Bookworm.img from the DietPi Website.

  2. Copied the .img to not formatted sdCard via sudo dd if=DietPi_RPi-ARMv6-Bookworm.img of=/dev/sda bs=8M status=progress
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    → the partitions are correctly shown in gparted

  3. Insert Card in Pi and Plug Power in. (Pi is connected to LAN with LAN to mUSB Adapter - everything working normal before!)

→ As the Pi does not show up in my Router overview, it seems it does not boot the OS.

Is there anything I missed?

Thank you very much.

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By all means, there may be some users on EnOS’ Forum using DietPi who perhaps could help you out.

With that said, DietPi seems to have its own support venue:

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You are absolutely right.

I posted here because im already active in the endeavourOS forum and I thought I messed something up with the dd command.

I already flashed DietPi with balena-etcher on another device without problems.
But at the moment balena-etcher does not work because of some electron issues.

So I tried dd as it’s very cool and quick. :wink:

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Your dd command seems alright.

Do you still have access to your RaspberryOS? If so you could use rpi-imager to flash your card

rpi-imager is in AUR as well:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?O=0&SeB=nd&K=rpi-imager&outdated=&SB=n&SO=d&PP=50&submit=Go

Also gnome-disk-utility could write an .img file to a device.

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No but I’m on EOS. :smiley:

I’ll try the disk utility, thank you very much!

Edit:

Apparently it’s installed, but i cant find it. :confused:

I also tried the rpi-imager but it does not work either.

Seems i just have to wait until balena-etcher is working again.

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