Pi Desktop : how to upgrade to new raspbian (buster)

Question

Hi All,

I apologize my poor english. Maybe I don't say the facts with the right words.

Context :

My Raspberry Pi 3 is inside an Element14 Pi Desktop, with a Kingston SSD

Desktop Computer Kit for Raspberry Pi

This system i using the drivers to boot and shutdown :

https://www.element14.com/community/external-link.jspa?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fpi-desktop%2Fdeb-make%2Freleases

Bad experiment :

Once, I tried to upgrade to the newest raspian (Buster), but my upgraded system failed to boot, so I thought this was a limit due to the installed driver and I had to go back and I installed again the previous raspbian :

Raspbian GNU/Linux 9.11 (stretch).

My question :

So my question is how to upgrade the raspbian to Buster the right way, without trouble with this driver limit within the Pi Desktop. I would appreciate to know step by step how to do this without breaking again the boot process.

Thanks for your kind attention.

kmikemoo · Accepted Answer

pcardona After looking at the following article, I just decided to flash my SD card with a new image of Buster. The link below does walk you through the process.

https://pimylifeup.com/upgrade-raspbian-stretch-to-raspbian-buster/

I also had an issue booting an RPi3. I thought it was dead. A clean install of the latest Raspbian Buster (not NOOBS) miraculously healed it.

pcardona · Answer

Well, I forgot to unsinstall the pidesktop first, so I resolved the issue simply like this : Uninstall first : sudo dpkg -r pidestop-base Install again and the job is done: sudo dpkg -i pidestop-base-1.1.0.deb