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Re: Raspberry Pi 1 to 2

From Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.sys.raspberry-pi
Subject Re: Raspberry Pi 1 to 2
Date 2015-10-05 19:51 +0000
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On Mon, 05 Oct 2015 20:19:49 +0100, attend wrote:

> I'm currently using raspberry Pi as my home media centre running OSMC.
> And I'm going to upgrade to Pi2, but I wonder if it's possible just
> insert the current SD card in Pi 1 to the new Pi2?
> 
> Thanks in advance.

A bootable Linux HDD will often boot successfully in another PC (at least 
that worked back before the arrival of UEFI BIOSes - haven't tried it 
since), so suck it and see. It will either boot or not and is unlikely to 
damage the SD card either way. 

If it fails, after setting up and booting off fresh SD card, you should 
be able to mount your old one in a USB card reader and copy /home onto 
your new card.

If you've been careful and put any new programs and associated data into 
/usr/local/, you can get all that stuff across too by copying /usr/local 
to the new disk because /usr/local/* is normally an empty directory tree 
on a freshly installed Linux.


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Raspberry Pi 1 to 2 "attend" <dumpling@virginmedia.com> - 2015-10-05 20:19 +0100
  Re: Raspberry Pi 1 to 2 Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-10-05 19:51 +0000
    Re: Raspberry Pi 1 to 2 Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> - 2015-10-05 21:10 +0100
  Re: Raspberry Pi 1 to 2 Another Dave <dmarsden@nospam.com> - 2015-10-05 21:03 +0100
  Re: Raspberry Pi 1 to 2 Gordon Henderson <gordon+usenet@drogon.net> - 2015-10-05 21:38 +0000
  Re: Raspberry Pi 1 to 2 Bob L <bl@thisaddressisnowhere.com> - 2015-10-06 09:29 +0100
    Re: Raspberry Pi 1 to 2 Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org> - 2015-10-06 10:24 +0100
      Re: Raspberry Pi 1 to 2 Rob Morley <nospam@ntlworld.com> - 2015-10-06 11:55 +0100
    Re: Raspberry Pi 1 to 2 Graham. <me@privicy.net> - 2015-10-06 17:36 +0100
  Re: Raspberry Pi 1 to 2 nev young <newsforpasiphae1953@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-10-06 10:42 +0100
    Re: Raspberry Pi 1 to 2 Another Dave <dmarsden@nospam.com> - 2015-10-06 16:49 +0100
      Re: Raspberry Pi 1 to 2 druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2015-10-06 17:12 +0100

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