Dreampi with a Raspberry Pi 400 mini guide

[theirvgotti452]

So with the prices of pi's being out of control and using WiFi is hit and miss with the zero w's I decided to look at the cheapest option of the RPi4 family. The RPi 400 is basically a Rpi4 and at $70usd it was a no brainier since that's even close to the going rate of zero 2w's I've seen (crazy I know).

On to the software. The Dreampi 1.7 DLE image for some reason hangs on boot or will refuse to boot. So there is an alternative method I saw mentioned somewhere using berryboot to load images. This one works perfectly for me.

You'll need a Raspberry Pi 400 with a micro HDMI and power (mouse optional). A minimum 8gb micro SD card and a flash drive of a minimum 8gb as well for good measure.

You're going to need to download berryboot here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/berryboot/


You're also going to need the berryboot image of Dreampi 1.7 DLE found here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/berryb ... erry-Pi-4/


I'll attach a video of how to load berry boot and the image:
***Rather then loading any other OS (for the purpose of this guide) skip any of the downloads in the video and use the Dreampi 1.7 DLE image loaded above.***

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bkl67DjNiNk



Boot the image, connect your pi to your router and your USB modem and play away. I know this may be more steps than usual for a standard Pi B model but since I didn't have access to one and the WiFi performance of the zero w's bugged me, this method helped me out to connect a wired connection while saving some money on overpriced pi's. Also I didn't find any other guide on how to with the RPi400 so I hope it helps someone else .

[pcwzrd13]

Have you tried the "Pi 4 / Zero 2" image from the Downloads page? I don't see any reason why that wouldn't work as it's basically a Pi 4. It was just updated a couple months ago for the Zero 2 so it should be plenty up to date for the Pi 400 which is older.

[theirvgotti452]

Have you tried the "Pi 4 / Zero 2" image from the Downloads page? I don't see any reason why that wouldn't work as it's basically a Pi 4. It was just updated a couple months ago for the Zero 2 so it should be plenty up to date for the Pi 400 which is older.

I did try that one but for some reason it was not cooperating with the rpi400. It would boot after a while but no USB port would power on/read and the keyboard wasn't working as well as no action from lan. But it works this way lol.