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    Battling to install RetroPie on SD card.

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    • D
      diesellwt
      last edited by

      Yes, I'm new to this. Basically I have been fighting with my Mac most of the day trying to get RetroPie on to the SD card.

      I have got it down to a point where it appears that there is something massively wrong with the sudo in terminal, this is stopping my using Applepi Baked as well.

      I get this statement when I try and do anything in terminal.
      sudo: unable to initialise PAM.

      Does anybody have any ideas how I could restore the sudo / PAM part that appears to be missing from terminal.

      I know my terminology is not the best, any help would be greatly appreciated. I only want to play some old spectrum games and show kids what I had back in the 80's.

      Thanks in advance

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      • InsecureSpikeI
        InsecureSpike
        last edited by InsecureSpike

        have you tried this one?, fella

        https://sourceforge.net/projects/piwriter/

        RPi 3 - RetroPie + 500gb HDD [consoles] + Razer Onza Tournament
        RPi 3 - RetroPie + 32gb USB [computers] + Keyboard
        both with AttractMode + FuzzBoxx Layout

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          diesellwt
          last edited by

          I have tried Piwriter, well I downloaded it but it would not open /run.

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            diesellwt
            last edited by

            Would reinstalling OSX El Capitan, solve the SUDO issue?

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              vxjester
              last edited by vxjester

              I'm running OSX El Capitan. Don't know if this will work for you but I used apple pi baker from http://www.tweaking4all.com/software/macosx-software/macosx-apple-pi-baker/ unzipped it after downloading it. then just dropped it into the application folder. changed my setting in security & privacy and allow apps down loaded from to anywhere. then I opened apple pi baker and it asked for sudo rights.
              Also about the PAM issuse I found this:

              With OSX you can boot into single-user mode by holding down Command-S after rebooting. You essentially have password-less root access to the system, with no PAM or other authentication, so you can fix all sorts of system issues like lost passwords and accidental directory renames this way.

              Yes, this is a potential security hole, but giving someone physical access to your machine is a security hole itself. It can be disable/password-protected if you want, and if you're really worried you can always encrypt your volumes so an intruder couldn't read your files even if they got this far.

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              • free8bitF
                free8bit
                last edited by

                Some SD cards don't work with Raspberry Pi. Maybe this is you problem. Take a look at this list: http://elinux.org/RPi_SD_cards

                Using an SD card from this list solved my problems.

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                  diesellwt
                  last edited by

                  Thanks to all that offered suggestions. Now solved issue by reinstalling OSX el capitian. All up and running

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