diff --git a/.build/images/dietpi-build b/.build/images/dietpi-build
index 8941b4d79a..b00a6a7737 100755
--- a/.build/images/dietpi-build
+++ b/.build/images/dietpi-build
@@ -408,7 +408,7 @@ packages='apt,bash-completion,bzip2,ca-certificates,cron,curl,fdisk,gpg,htop,ipu
 (( $DISTRO > 7 )) && packages+='7zip,' || packages+='p7zip,'
 [[ $HW_MODEL == 75 ]] && packages+='iproute2' || packages+='console-setup,dropbear,ethtool,fake-hwclock,ifupdown,isc-dhcp-client,kmod,rfkill,systemd-timesyncd,usbutils'
 # - "--skip=check/empty" to ignore /etc/fstab, boot and tmpfs mounts we added above
-G_EXEC_OUTPUT=1 G_EXEC mmdebstrap --skip=check/empty --variant=minbase --include="$packages" --arch="$parch" --keyring="$keyring" "$distro" ./rootfs "$repo"
+G_EXEC_OUTPUT=1 G_EXEC mmdebstrap --debug --mode=root --format=dir --skip=check/empty --variant=minbase --include="$packages" --arch="$parch" --keyring="$keyring" "$distro" ./rootfs "$repo"
 G_EXEC umount rootfs/dev rootfs/run rootfs/var/cache/apt rootfs/var/lib/apt/lists rootfs/var/log
 
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