Install ON HDD without complete wipe

mop_zero · February 13, 2017 at 4:21 AM

I would like to install LibreELEC on a partitioned hard drive that I have been using with Kodibuntu. I wish to maintain the media I have on the drive and as such it's impractical to do a complete wipe (over 1tb of data)

Is there a way to install LibreELEC without wiping the drive?
This OpenELEC Mediacenter - OpenELEC Forum - [HOWTO] Multiboot OpenElec + Windows without Ubuntu install (1/11) is the closest I have come to instructions. Am I on the right path? I have no need for multiboot. I just want a clean install to replace my slightly broken Kodibuntu.

**lrusak** · February 13, 2017 at 4:24 AM Official Post

You are better off just copying the data off the drive and starting fresh or installing LibreELEC onto a thumb drive. Otherwise you will have to do your own partitioning and installation. It's not hard but it's just another route for error.

**Klojum** · February 13, 2017 at 6:18 AM Official Post

Quote from mop_zero

I just want a clean install to replace my slightly broken Kodibuntu.

If you want to replace KodiBuntu, why do you need a dual boot setup?

Anyway, the OpenELEC article is a little outdated but the basics are still correct.

In short, these are the following steps:
- Use Gparted to resize the Kodibuntu partition. Resize it 9 GB smaller
- Create a system partition of 1 GB in EXT4 format
- Create a storage partition of 8 GB in EXT4 format
- Remember the device numbers of both newly created partitions
- Copy the system files of LibreELEC into the system partition folder
- Edit /etc/grub.d/40_custom and add the LibreELEC menu entry
- sudo update-grub2 to finalize the menu changes
- reboot and hold left-SHIFT to see the GRUB bootmenu

mop_zero · February 13, 2017 at 4:27 PM

Quote from Klojum

If you want to replace KodiBuntu, why do you need a dual boot setup?

No need for dual boot. However, after thinking about it, I may attempt to setup a dual boot lubuntu and libreelec system.
Thank you for the help.