I have a Raspberry Pi 4 that I customized, and it's tough to remove the SD card since it has an outdated Retropie installation that I haven't touched in five years. The repository is no longer accessible, making the system pretty useless. I want to use this Raspberry Pi to set up Jellyfin, so I'm thinking about installing a new distro specifically for that. However, I'm unsure if it's feasible to do this from the command line while erasing the current distro. Can someone help me out or suggest an alternative?
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Unfortunately, directly installing a new distro from the command line while your current one is running is really tricky. If you're asking this, it might be much simpler to just take the SD card out and flash a new image onto it instead. This would save you a lot of hassle!
You might find it possible in theory, but it sounds like a lot of work, and if you're not super experienced, you could end up messing things up. Maybe consider using a USB drive to install the new distro instead?
You can create a bootable USB with a distro like DietPi or Debian, boot from it, and install it onto your SD card. That way, you can cleanly install the new distro!
Thanks! That sounds like a solid plan. I'll give that a shot.