manual update raspberry pi 3 from pi 1

1st Official Post

    I am planning to get a Raspberry pi 3 in the near future, i have the Raspberry pi 1 currently, can you do a manual update of a SD card from Raspberry Pi 1 to Raspberry pi 3 code? or would i have to do a fresh install?

    Thanks

    • Official Post

    You can do a manual update. Just drop the RPi3 tar file into the update folder, reboot, it will update, then it will fail to boot, power off, move the sd card and place it in the RPi3 and boot it.

    Depending on the version you are using you may have to do the following to allow cross platform updating

    Code
    touch /storage/.update/.nocompat
    • Official Post

    The RPi-1 has a normally sized SDcard slot, the RPi-3 uses a microSD card.

    Unless you already use a microSD + adapter on the RPi-1, a backup-restore operation seems a better option for a RPi-3.

    Quote from lrusak


    You can do a manual update. Just drop the RPi3 tar file into the update folder, reboot, it will update, then it will fail to boot, power off, move the sd card and place it in the RPi3 and boot it.

    Depending on the version you are using you may have to do the following to allow cross platform updating

    Code
    touch /storage/.update/.nocompat

    Thanks for the info