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Installing Libreelec Manually? - OakTown2g - 2017-09-04
I was wondering if anyone on this form can tell me how to install Libreelec Manually like back in the day with Openelec and not with a sd card image
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RE: Installing Libreelec Manually? - DarrenHill - 2017-09-04
How to you mean "manually", do you mean burning the image directly to the card via etcher or something similar?
If so you can just download the relevant img.gz file from the LibreElec download page and use that like before. And you can manually update using the .tar files from the same page (just below the img.gz ones).
All much the same as in the old days, at least how I used to do it (and indeed still do sometimes for the updates).
RE: Installing Libreelec Manually? - OakTown2g - 2017-09-04
(2017-09-04, 14:40)DarrenHill Wrote: How to you mean "manually", do you mean burning the image directly to the card via etcher or something similar?
If so you can just download the relevant img.gz file from the LibreElec download page and use that like before. And you can manually update using the .tar files from the same page (just below the img.gz ones).
All much the same as in the old days, at least how I used to do it (and indeed still do sometimes for the updates).
What I'm saying is, back in the day, I could format the sd card and have two separate partitions in the sizes that I want, open the Openelec image and copy and paste the correct files to the sd card. Then run it on raspberry pi.
RE: Installing Libreelec Manually? - DarrenHill - 2017-09-04
Grab the relevant .img.gz file from the download link above (from the Latest Release and Manual Update for LibreELEC (.img.gz) section), decompress it to get the .img file and then you should be able to do something similar.
Whether it will work from the software side I do not know, but I would expect so if it worked before as the structure of LE is similar to OE still.
For example this is the image file for LE 8.0.2 for the Pi2/3.
RE: Installing Libreelec Manually? - trogggy - 2017-09-04
You can still do that. A foolproof way would be to write the downloaded image to an sd card / usb stick first (with libreelec's tool / win32diskimager / USBit / rufus / whatever), then copy everything from the fat partition to pc. Format the card manually and stick the copied files back on it.
The only practical difference from an openelec manual install is that IIRC the second partition's default label is now 'Libreelec_Disk'.
RE: Installing Libreelec Manually? - OakTown2g - 2017-09-04
(2017-09-04, 14:55)trogggy Wrote: You can still do that. A foolproof way would be to write the downloaded image to an sd card / usb stick first (with libreelec's tool / win32diskimager / USBit / rufus / whatever), then copy everything from the fat partition to pc. Format the card manually and stick the copied files back on it.
The only practical difference from an openelec manual install is that IIRC the second partition's default label is now 'Libreelec_Disk'.
Yea, that second partition is probably what messed me up.