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Annihil8ted
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SD Card Swap?
Is it possible to take the SD card of a RPI3 and put it say RPI2 or RPI0?
Re: SD Card Swap?
Yes as long as it is fully updated. Since you are running a Pi3, it doesn't need to be updated.
There are 10 types of people: those who understand binary and those who don't.
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W. H. Heydt
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Re: SD Card Swap?
And just to make there are no hidden assumptions...in order to do the card swap, you need to properly shut down the running Pi and remove the power before pulling the SD card.
Side note...there is a way to be able to treat an SD card as removable media. It can be done with a Pi3B, Pi2B2, or a CM3L. The Pi has to be set up to boot from a USB attached device. Then the SD card is just another bit of removable media.
Side note...there is a way to be able to treat an SD card as removable media. It can be done with a Pi3B, Pi2B2, or a CM3L. The Pi has to be set up to boot from a USB attached device. Then the SD card is just another bit of removable media.
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Martin Frezman
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Re: SD Card Swap?
Actually, this can be done with any model of Pi. I've never understood why people say it only works on the latest versions.Side note...there is a way to be able to treat an SD card as removable media. It can be done with a Pi3B, Pi2B2, or a CM3L. The Pi has to be set up to boot from a USB attached device. Then the SD card is just another bit of removable media.
If this post appears in the wrong forums category, my apologies.
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W. H. Heydt
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Re: SD Card Swap?
It only works--at leat with Reaspbian, whihc is the default assumption--if the Pi has booted from something other than the SD card....and only Pis based on the BCM2837 can do that. Those Pis are: Pi3B, Pi2bv1.2, CM3, and CM3L. The CM3 can't use an SD card at all, though. The Model A, Model B, B+, A+, CM, and Pi2Bv1.1 can't fully boot without an SD card.Martin Frezman wrote:Actually, this can be done with any model of Pi. I've never understood why people say it only works on the latest versions.Side note...there is a way to be able to treat an SD card as removable media. It can be done with a Pi3B, Pi2B2, or a CM3L. The Pi has to be set up to boot from a USB attached device. Then the SD card is just another bit of removable media.