Ordered a Usbridge for a friend. However this one came with Volumio (pre)installed. We want to have DietPi instead to use with Roon.
Is it OK to stick my own DietPi micro-sd (which came with my own Usbridge -> DietPi) in this one to get a DietPi install?
If you do that then your unit will be inoperable. These units need a microSD card installed to work. It would be better to overwrite the microSD card in your friend’s unit with DietPi or better yet buy a new microSD card and run it off that so that you have the option of going back to Volume if the urge should hit.
Thanks! I just downloaded the image for DietPi_SparkySBC-ARMv7-Stretch_AlloGUI and installed it on a fresh micro-sd card using Etcher. Wednesday I’ll have a try with sticking it in the Volumia-version of USBridge and see if DietPi is installed correctly. I’ll keep you informed…
If your USBridge is anything like mine, you’d probably like to re-image the internal eMMC instead. It is faster and for me, worked better with a stable install. An eMMC adapter is delivered with the USBridge, but dismantling and rebuilding the package requires some caution.
That said, the USBridge is supposed to boot from an inserted microSD also…
I can confirm that when a microSD card is inserted into the USBridge that the unit boots from the microSD card and bypasses the eMMC. That’s the way I ran mine when I had one.
And my USBridge didn’t behave like that, just sayin’
I had issues that seemed to stem from the Sparky reading from both cards. With the DietPi (non Allo) image on just the internal eMMC, everything has worked 100%.
I prefer to have DietPi_SparkySBC-ARMv7-Stretch_AlloGUI installed properly on the internal eMMC but haven’t found an ‘easy’ instruction how to do it. I thought rebooting with the external eMMC / micro SD do the install. Or???