run an image from external hard drive instead of sd card.

DarkWolf

@moonston333 Updated my post with the instructions

moonston333

@DarkWolf thanks very much for this appreciate it.
i think i watched the video on this yesterday it looks like the same instructions but it put me off as thought it might not work as the guy was saying id need a y splitter cable to power the external drive and it only worked on certain drive but he didnt say what drive.

did u get this from the video dont think i can post a link on it but it was a guy with a beard and red t shirt on is it the same one.

also what external drive are u using.

ive got a seagate expansion portable 2tb.

do i actually burn the 128gb image to the external with Win32DiskImager
after i have done all the above.

or do i just drag and drop it onto the drive then plug drive into pi then switch on

thanks

DarkWolf

@moonston333

did u get this from the video dont think i can post a link on it but it was a guy with a beard and red t shirt on is it the same one.

I don't know to be honest, sadly

also what external drive are u using.

Uh, some 500gb seagate drive, I don't really now which one as it isn't here right now

do i actually burn the 128gb image to the external

No, that wouldn't work... You have to set it up on the sd card and then it gets copied over... after you did this once you can take a image of the usb drive and burn it onto another one

moonston333

@DarkWolf so i still need to buy a 128gb sd card to burn the 128gb preconfigured image onto then it transfers over to the usb when pi is powered up.

also did u have a powered external usb drive

thanks again

DarkWolf

@moonston333

so i still need to buy a 128gb sd card to burn the 128gb preconfigured image onto

I assume you mean an image someone created and shared to download... If this is the case: We don't support unofficial images
Also: I would recommend setting it up by yourself, learn how you do it yourself

also did u have a powered external usb drive

Yes, the raspberry pi can't handle external usb drives (usb thumbdrives are fine though)

moonston333

@DarkWolf no i mean an image that me and afew others are makeing. say if my friend finishes an image can i use his on mine. if so then i would need to buy an 128gb sd card to transfer it to my external.

but i understand i can just get the retropie 4.2 image (which is on my 16gb sd card now im using) then when i power on it will transfer this to my external then do i just add my own stuff to the external drag and drop connect it to my pc ie games art video n that.

when u say yes hard drive needs to be powered do u mean powered if im going to be running retropie image from hard drive instead of sd card.

as ive got all my games on external now and its not powered

so more power is needed for the image booting form ex HDD
and no power is needed for just loading games from ex HDD

DarkWolf

@moonston333 If the pi can handle your current external hard drive it will be fine :-)

moonston333

@DarkWolf true thats what i thought. is it also possible to put game boxart and videos on external drive instead of on sd card

DarkWolf

@moonston333 with the os on a hard drive?

moonston333

@DarkWolf with os on sd card or on hard drive wanting to know with os on sd card for now

moonston333

there will probably be alot of work to have the boxart and videos on the external wont there