RPi NOOBS partition information

procount · November 23, 2017 at 9:03 AM

Looks ok from a visual inspection point of view. I will test it properly tonight (UK time).

procount · November 23, 2017 at 7:02 PM

Test results:

Installed from internet ok.
downloaded to local USB ok.
Installed from local USB. ok.

All looks ok to me.

Thanks for doing this.

**milhouse** · November 23, 2017 at 11:41 PM

Thanks, I've pushed a PR for 8.2 now too.

NOOBS: shorten partition labels, change tar filename [backport] by MilhouseVH · Pull Request #2249 · LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv · GitHub

**milhouse** · November 24, 2017 at 12:24 AM

Is the change in partition labels (and/or tar files) likely to cause any problems for NOOBS users upgrading their existing NOOBS installation from an older version of LibreELEC? For example, a NOOBS user upgrading LibreELEC 8.2.0.1 (with longer partition labels/tar files) to LibreELEC 8.2.1 (shorter partition labels/tar files)? I've really no idea how NOOBS performs an OS upgrade.

procount · November 24, 2017 at 12:49 AM

NOOBS does not perform upgrades. It's just a one time installer. It can install a newer version, but it would delete the old one first, along with any other OSes that were installed at the same time.

Once LibreELEC is installed on the SD card, I guess it would be upgraded in the same way that it would be had it been copied as an image file. I'm not sure how the tar files or partition names would have any influence on that.

For example, Raspbian would be upgraded with `sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade`

**milhouse** · November 24, 2017 at 12:57 AM

Ah OK, so once LibreELEC NOOBS is installed then NOOBS uses the standard LibreELEC upgrade procedure for subsequent updates - that should be fine then. Many thanks.