updating firmware manually

[jbarradas]

Hi. I'm trying to update firmware manually, since rpi-update doesn't work and causes Pi not to boot.

But when I copy the files from https://github.com/Hexxeh/rpi-firmware , it says that the partition does not have enough space.

I wrote the *.img with win32diskimager, so I didn't chose the size of the partition.


How can I do this?

[DougieLawson]

How big is your SDCard? You really need to be using a 4GB card as a minimum (my RPi has a 32GB card with Raspbian on it).
Have you expanded the filesystem to use the whole card?

The firmware update is quite a large package when it's downloaded.

How many old versions do you have in /lib/modules/? I found one that I'd not used since I first booted my RPi.
How much stuff is in /var/log, /var/cache or /tmp that you really don't need?

sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoclean
du -a /var | sort -n -r | head -n 20
might help clean up and find where things are hiding.

[Phill Rymer]

try sudo raspi-config at command prompt gives you first time use configuration select expand memory to full card and reboot