Noob question about raspberry pi and memory
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I am new to raspberry pi. I have a 3B+. I have successfully run retropie on it but I haven't run any games yet. I can't figure out how to get my ROMs on the same memory device that I burn the disc image to. No matter how big a storage device I use, after burning the disk image it says it's only about a gig total, with most of that being taken up by the data I just burned to it. So it seems like there's no room for my ROMs. I haven't seen this issue discussed in any of the tutorials I've read so I think I'm just missing some piece of information so common it's assumed everyone knows it. Thanks in advance to anyone that replies.
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You need to ftp them over. The roms are on a seperate partition that's probably not visible in windows. I think there's information on the wiki that tells you how to transfer roms over.
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@ballboff
so the rest of the memory will show up as available in the Raspberry Pi? And do you mean I need to transfer the files through the internet? Or would connecting my pie to my Windows PC with an ethernet cable work? As I said I'm a noob. -
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@dankcushions
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@kiesowingme4 not sure about ethernet, i'm guessing if it connects and it has an ip address I don't see any reason why you can't connect to it in the same way. I just find it easier over wifi (I have the rpi 3, but you can connect with a dongle). I have my collection of roms stored on my onedrive and I sometimes use my phone to do the transferring of roms through es file explorer.
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