Setting up Home Assistant on Raspberry Pi using generic Linux host method

Recently my installation of Home Assistant died. It appears that I burned up the SD card. I can no longer read the SD Card. When I run gparted against the SD card, the card mounts in read-only mode. After a bit of research, I came up with a plan.

Rough Plan

• Install the latest Raspbian Buster image
• Reconfigure the Pi to run from a hard drive
• Install Home Assistant using the generic Linux host method

Steps

• Downloaded Raspbian Buster with desktop from the Raspberry Pi website
• Using balenaEtcher to flash Buster to an SD card (8GB)
• Booted the Pi for the first time
• Setup the language, keyboard, and timezone. 
• Changed the pi user's password
• Selected the WiFi network
• Updated the software
• Updated the packages
• sudo apt update
• sudo apt upgrade
• sudo reboot
• Followed the directions from the blog post 'Quick SD to SSD on the pi 4'
• use the utility 'SD Card Copier' to copy the SD card to the hard drive
• run 'sudo blkid' to get the UUID of the SD sard and the hard drive
• backup the file /boot/cmdline.txt
• edit the file /boot/cmdline.txt. Change the partuuid from using the SD card to the hard drive
• reboot
• Note: must leave the SD card in the Raspberry Pi
• Changed the hostname of the Pi
• Enabled SSH on the Pi
• Setup ssh key on my main PC
• ssh-keygen
• ssh-copy -i ~/.ssh/key-name pi@ip.address
• ssh-add
• Disable Password Authentication on the Pi
• sudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config
• Uncommented the line 'PasswordAuthentication yes'
• changed yes to no
• Set a static IP for the Pi
• edit /etc/dhcpcd.conf
• added
• interface wlan0
• static ip_address=XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
• static routers=XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
• static domain_name_servers=XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
• reboot
• Changed Pi Configuration to boot to cli
• Followed the directions from the blog post 'Install Docker and Docker Compose on Raspberry pi 4(Raspbian Buster)'
• curl -sSL get.docker.com | sh
• sudo usermod -aG docker pi
• sudo apt-get install libffi-dev libssl-dev
• sudo apt install python3-dev
• sudo apt-get install -y python3 python3-pip
• sudo pip3 install docker-compose
• Followed installer for a generic Linux system
• sudo apt install bash
• sudo apt install jq
• sudo apt install curl
• sudo apt install avahi-daemon
• sudo apt install dbus
• sudo apt install apparmor-utils
• curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/home-assistant/hassio-installer/master/hassio_install.sh | bash -s -- -m raspberrypi4-64
• Setup Home Assistant

There was an issue with Home Assistant connecting to the internet. I removed the changes to /etc/dhcpcd.config. This seems to have helped.