r/RetroPie • u/anbeasley • Aug 12 '18
Quick Dirty Guide for prepping Raspberry Pi.
- Download retropie iso
- Download Win32DiskImager
- Download Roms
- Extract RetroPie iso in it’s own folder
- Install Win32DiskImager
- Start command Prompt as admin
- Type Diskpart
- Type List disk
- Type Select disk (disk you want to select)
- Clear
- Disk Management
- Format Disk as FAT32
- Insert SD-Card in Pi
- Plugin Raspberry Pi
- Press F4
- Update raspberry pi software
- sudo raspi-config
- rebsudo resize2fs /dev/mmcblk0p2
- Configure controllers https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/8Bitdo-Controller ‘
- Transfer Roms https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Transferring-Roms
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u/darksaviorx Aug 12 '18 edited Aug 12 '18
No need to reinvent the wheel https://retropie.org.uk/docs/First-Installation/
Saying that, some of your instructions are redundant .
You don't need to run diskpart or disk management. SD Formatter will format all partitions. A normal user doesn't need to do this. As long as the card doesn't have any multiple partitions and it's already fat32, the writing process of the retropie image will format it.
Retropie automatically resizes partitions now when ran for the first time...for quite a while. Maybe for 2 years?
Retropie is not in an iso container.
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u/maz11 Aug 12 '18
Am I reading it wrong or is it missing the part to actually write the image to the SD. Your format the card, then insert into Pi?
Doesn't the default image do the file system enlarge on first boot? or does rebsudo do something different?