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Is there a way to upgrade NOOBS preloaded in SD Card using Raspberry Pi 3B without flashing SD Card?

dixonselvan

I received the new Raspberry Pi 3B+ as a gift and I bought a Raspberry Pi 3B with NOOBS preloaded SD Card in this link - http://in.element14.com/jsp/search/productdetail.jsp?sku=2525227&CMP=i-55c5-00001621. Both these were through Element14.

 

Now what I am trying to do is use the NOOBS preloaded SD Card for 3B+. But that is not working and it makes 3B+ stuck up with the first rainbow colour background page at boot up. I read through articles and found the issue is because of the older version of NOOBS which would not be compatible to support the upgrades in 3B+. The article with the resolution is found here - https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=212452. It says to run the below update commands using 3B.

 

sudo apt-get update

 

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

 

When I tried I got stuck with an error in the second update process at 67%. Does anybody have a solution for this issue? Do let me know in the comments. Meanwhile I will continue to explore the possibilities.

 

Thanks,

Dixon Selvan

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  • Thank you for your suggestions and  I had kept flashing SD Card as the final option. My question is why is an update failing at the below command and particularly at 67% when trying to download a package of size 278MB? Is it my network connection? No I guess because it is working. I’ll try again today.

     

    sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

     

    Do we have options which would work without flashing SD Card?

  • in reply to dixonselvan

    If you are having trouble I would copy my files onto a thumb drive before they get lost.

     

    How much room is left on the SD card? The other OSs take up quite a bit of room.

    RasPi foundation usually recommend a fresh start rather than a dist-upgrade if you want everything to work properly.

     

    I normally get a new, bigger card for a dist-upgrade and keep the old one separate as backup until everything is working.

     

    Hope you get it working.

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  • in reply to dixonselvan

    If you are having trouble I would copy my files onto a thumb drive before they get lost.

     

    How much room is left on the SD card? The other OSs take up quite a bit of room.

    RasPi foundation usually recommend a fresh start rather than a dist-upgrade if you want everything to work properly.

     

    I normally get a new, bigger card for a dist-upgrade and keep the old one separate as backup until everything is working.

     

    Hope you get it working.

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