# PI3 CM Standalone deployment

**URL:** <https://hub.mender.io/t/pi3-cm-standalone-deployment/673>\
**Category:** General Discussions\
**Tags:** debian\
**Created:** [June 6, 2019, 7:52am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/pi3-cm-standalone-deployment/673 "2019-06-06T07:52:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![PFGO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@PFGO](https://hub.mender.io/u/PFGO)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2019, 7:52am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/pi3-cm-standalone-deployment/673/1 "2019-06-06T07:52:49Z")

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Hi guys,

I tried to generate a sdimg for standalone usage.

I’m using Mender version 2.0.  
The HW is a Raspberry Pi 3 Compute Module. The Image I’ve used is the default raspbian lite image.

I don’t want to use Mender server, I only want to use mender in standalone mode, but it seems to be, I’ve to configure a server for the converting process. How I can skip this?

The command I’ve used:

mender-convert from-raw-disk-image -r input/xberry-img-1.img -m xberry-image-1-mender-integ.sdimg -a elderberry-image-1-mender-integ -d raspberrypi3 --bootloader-toolchain arm-buildroot-linux-gnueabihf

The result I got:  
7/9 Installing Mender to Mender disk image…  
No server type specified. Aborting.

Thank you in advance

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**Author:** ![drewmoseley](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/hub.mender.io/drewmoseley/32/47_2.png) [@drewmoseley](https://hub.mender.io/u/drewmoseley)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2019, 1:37pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/pi3-cm-standalone-deployment/673/2 "2019-06-06T13:37:29Z")

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It looks like the mender-convert utility does assume you will be using a server. You can just add the “–demo --demo-host-ip 127.0.0.1” options to workaround this. The output artifact should work just fine in standalone mode.