Recently the OS disk of one of my servers failed. Since the OS disk is a USB stick and I have had good experiences with Diet Pi for my raspberry pi's, I thought I'd take a look if it is also available for AMD64. Guess what, it is!

So I fired up dd to push the downloaded image to the USB stick, popped the USB stick into the server and ran the OS for the first time. So far, so good. But then I rebooted...

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