Raspberry Pi Forums

Hi everyone.

I set up the Debian OS on a SD card the other day.  No sooner had I done it then the Debian OS had an update.

So, just wondering, do I have to reformat the SD card and start again, or can I just put the new image 'over the top' of the existing one, and therefore not have to re-size partitions etc.

Not a big deal at the minute I know, but when my Pi arrives and I have stuff saved on the SD card it would be a pain backing stuff up all the time because I have format to install the latest OS release.  (Not that I don't back up, but you know what I mean).

Cheers

There have been a few threads on this topic already (q.v.).

The short summary is: For the time being anyway, yes, you do have to start over from scratch each time.