Hi, I have an original Raspberry Pi Zero (not a W or 2 model, just a plain original Zero actually I just realized that DietPi identified it as a RPi Zero W (armv6l) so maybe it is the W version but it is definitely one of the originals) and so far I have been unsuccessful at installing the new Bookworm version of Raspberry Pi OS. Since I do not need a desktop, just ssh access, I used Raspberry Pi OS Lite, which I would have thought would install on the Pi Zero, but it would not. It apparently never even got far enough into the boot process to write a log file (it's a headless system, so no screen attached).
In desperation I tried flashing the SD card (same card) with DietPi. Well that worked, and it booted up with no issue. But DietPi is strange, I just did not case for the way they did things, for example they asked a lot of questions during installation that Raspberry Pi OS never asks and that I wasn't sure how to answer, and then I had concerns about security since it isn't an official Raspberry Pi release (the fact that their logo looks like something a bad hacker group would use probably didn't help either). But, running that for a few minutes did prove that neither my SD card nor the Pi are bad. So, my question is, why does Raspberry Pi OS Lite not work, and is there anything (that doesn't require a high degree of understanding of Linux) that one can do to make it work with the Pi Zero?
(The Pi Zero basically has one task that involves controlling some of the GPIO pins, and in previous OS versions it handled that one task fine, so I'm not really wanting to replace it).
In desperation I tried flashing the SD card (same card) with DietPi. Well that worked, and it booted up with no issue. But DietPi is strange, I just did not case for the way they did things, for example they asked a lot of questions during installation that Raspberry Pi OS never asks and that I wasn't sure how to answer, and then I had concerns about security since it isn't an official Raspberry Pi release (the fact that their logo looks like something a bad hacker group would use probably didn't help either). But, running that for a few minutes did prove that neither my SD card nor the Pi are bad. So, my question is, why does Raspberry Pi OS Lite not work, and is there anything (that doesn't require a high degree of understanding of Linux) that one can do to make it work with the Pi Zero?
(The Pi Zero basically has one task that involves controlling some of the GPIO pins, and in previous OS versions it handled that one task fine, so I'm not really wanting to replace it).
Statistics: Posted by berrygood — Sun Jul 07, 2024 7:16 pm