Retropie/Rasbian on one Pi 3/Separate cards?
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Now I have my SD card with Retropie installed on my Pi 3, am i able to remove the card and put a different card in that has Raspian installed?
Basically, I want to be able to switch from using the Pi as a RetroPie, to then using it with a Raspian OS just by switching cards. Is this possible, or is the Pi configured for RetroPie now under the hood?
Also, are you able to update the Pi 3 some how, like the bios/BT/WiFi?
Thanks
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@jay81uk retropie is built on raspbian. if you are referring to the desktop environment lxde see here:
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/FAQ#where-did-the-desktop-go
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Yes the desktop version. I like things how they are though, so I was wanting Raspbian on a different card. Is that possible? To just switch cards with retropie on one and raspian desktop on the other?
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@jay81uk You really shouldnt need two SD cards when you can have both on the same SD card but if you want two separate cards you can do that. this is the raspbian image: https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/ installed the same way as the retropie image.
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I have Noobs on a MicroSD card that came with my Pi so I was thinking of just switching cards depending on what I wanted to use? Or is it much easier to just boot into the desktop on the same card?
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just depends on your preference. I prefer to keep them on the same card and just swap the boot options depending on which I prefer to boot up first. and noobs works fine too.
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@herb_fargus How do you switch? One video has the desktop option within the menu of retropie.
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@herb_fargus haha just watching this and realised it was you!
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@jay81uk id follow the wiki page as its more updated than my ancient videos from 2.6- it will automatically add an option in the ports menu. for boot options see also: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/FAQ#how-do-i-boot-to-the-desktop-or-kodi
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You could also use Berryboot to do a dual boot between Raspbian, RetroPie and many more if your Micro-SD Card is big enough.
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Another option (Linux is all about choice!) Is to use Raspbian as a base, installing RetroPie afterwards; this is how my system is s setup (along with Kodi Media Centre).
I wrote a guide to installing everything from scratch:
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Hi
Yes you can and I do this with a card with Raspbian on and another with My weather station software so I can try things out without ruining my live environment.
Cheers
Paul
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