raspbian and arch on pi

[leejohnson]

hey guys,

when i bought the noobs sd card, it gave me the option to install i list of operating systems,

i installed rasprian and arch linux, after playing around i like raspbrian.

how do i unistall arch linux please.

i have user access and root access if that helps.

[B.Goode]

how do i unistall arch linux please.

Short answer: you don't. NOOBS is a no-frills Installer - it doesn't have tools for UNinstalling.

Medium answer: the NOOBS recovery console allows you to select the OSes to install. So by going back to NOOBS by using Shift when prompted at boot-up you can choose to install ONLY Raspbian. But note that you will erase/overwrite your existing installation of Raspbian and any files/projects that you have worked on.

Long answer: if your concern is to reclaim SD card space, then it is theoretically possible to use a partition editor like gparted to reconfigure the partitions on the SD card. If you knew how to do that, I suspect you wouldn't have asked the question...

[pluggy]

If you've settled on Raspbian, I'd abandon NOOBS and just put Raspbian direct from the image.

[leejohnson]

thanks for the reply,

i really do need to keep the files saved on the sd card on there,

so how do i "abandon NOOBS and just put Raspbian direct from the image" ???

[RaTTuS]

copy you changes elsewhere and reflash just using raspina image then copy tour files back