Dietpi: Dietpi without internet?

[zenmaster24]

Hi,

I am filing this ias a bug, but I dont know if it is.

Is it possible to use DietPi without an internet connection? Just by itself, connected to the lan.
When booting, it fails with an error message about being unable to spider a file online - i dont need internet connecitivity all the time, I just want to run it to see how it goes.

Using Raspberry Pi 2, with an ethernet connection if that matters.

Cheers!

[Fourdee]

@zenmaster24

Hi,

Yes, firstly disable boot wait for network:

• dietpi-config
• networking options: Misc
• Boot net wait. Set to disabled

Secondly (if above still fails URL test) we need to find out what exactly is triggering this in our code.
Ideally, if you could take a screenshot or the URL its checking, we can track it down, and, find a solution for you.

[MichaIng]

And you as well need to disable network time sync. dietpi-config advanced options.

Basically we need an offline mode to automatically skip all network request attempts: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/issues/2915

[zenmaster24]

Hi,

Thanks for the pointers - I did the following in dietpi.txt

1. Set CONFIG_BOOT_WAIT_FOR_NETWORK to 0
2. Set CONFIG_NTP_MODE to 0.

Would that be enough to do the above tasks mentioned above?
After doing this and booting with nothing connected but the TV, I still get the error.

The relevant paraphrased parts of the error are :

- Command | Connection test: http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian
- Exit code | 4

Log file contents:
Spider mode enabled. Check if remote file exists.
Resolving raspbian.raspberrypi.org... failed
wget: unable to resolve host address raspbian.raspberrypi.org

[FAILED] DierPi-Login | Unable to continue, DietPit-Login will now terminate
root@DietPi:~#

Thanks :)

[MichaIng]

@zenmaster24
Ah so it's the first boot.

As long as there is no strong reason to keep it disconnected from internet, I suggest you at least connect it for the first login, to allow auto-update to the newest version and finishing the firstrun setup.

However if you want to skip for now: echo 2 > /DietPi/dietpi/.install_stage
As fast as you have internet, revert: echo 0 > /DietPi/dietpi/.install_stage
Then login again to apply firstrun setup steps.

[zenmaster24]

Thanks @MichaIng - will give it a try!

[MichaIng]

I mark this as closed, referring to: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/issues/2915
Let's collect all info there about which steps are required to have DietPi running nicely without internet access.