Upgrading from 4.1 to 4.2, time?
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How long does it take to upgrade from 4.1 to 4.2? Will I keep all my roms/settings?
Pi Model or other hardware: Pi3B
Power Supply used: 2.5 amp power supply
RetroPie Version Used: 4.2.10
Built From: Premade from Retropie website
USB Devices connected: 4x ibuffalo snes controllers -
Depending on your connection. Roms will stay
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Several, several hours. I started mine at 6 PM or so last night and when I went to bed at 1 AM, it was still not done, so I let it run overnight.
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@BGallagherLA it shouldn't take that long. Bad sdcard?
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@edm203 It depends what you have installed. If it is only standard packages then 20 minutes or so dependent on connection speed. If you have any experimental packages which require building from source it could be quite a while...
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@BuZz Maybe he has some packages which require building from source. They can take a very long time.
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Yeah, I think I did go from source, and i installed everything, but I think I went from source instead of binaries, which I must have chosen on accident. Oh well. Live and learn, as they say.
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@BGallagherLA Always use the binary update. These are the stable releases. The source may contain new, buggy or experimental code and may cause issues. Plus, as you discovered it takes an age to compile. Ah, well, lesson learned.
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Wow, didn't know there was a difference btw source and binary. Ok, I just cancelled the update, reflashing my backup from yesterday, and will start again from binary. Thanks for the feedback, everyone!
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It should take just a couple minutes. Don't update from the source, I hit that one accidentally two days ago.
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@PetroRie Still updating?
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It about 4hrs for mine to update. Phew.
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How do I update just retropie not emulators
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@AlexMurphy said in Upgrading from 4.1 to 4.2, time?:
@PetroRie Still updating?
From source it took just way too long, I decided to pull out the power plug and restart the Pi. Dangerous move but nothing happened.
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@PetroRie I pulled the plug, reinstalled from a backup. Took out all experimental stuff and source installs, and tried again. Still took 4 hrs.
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So strange, like 5-10 mins to me
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@edm203 said in Upgrading from 4.1 to 4.2, time?:
@PetroRie I pulled the plug, reinstalled from a backup. Took out all experimental stuff and source installs, and tried again. Still took 4 hrs.
Maybe it's your SD card. What kind of SD card are you using? Is this the first time that you're using the update option or did you update in the past too?
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@PetroRie It's the first time I ever have done this. My microSD card is class 4 which might explain the slowness.
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@edm203 said in Upgrading from 4.1 to 4.2, time?:
@PetroRie It's the first time I ever have done this. My microSD card is class 4 which might explain the slowness.
That could explain it, I think you might fight this article interesting:
https://www.howtogeek.com/189897/how-to-buy-an-sd-card-speed-classes-sizes-and-capacities-explained/
For RetroPie they recommend to use a class 10 card.
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@PetroRie Thanks for the article. Aside from the slow update, games load and run perfectly.
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