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Hello,
I have an old laptop (Lenovo Ideapad 310) that I want to re-purpose into a normal Linux machine and a retro gaming rig. I've been looking around and grown quite fond of two distros, Zorin OS and Lakka. Zorin OS looks very similar to Windows 10, which is ideal. Lakka is an all-in-one retro gaming platform which is also ideal, no need to use separate emulations to play games.
The question I wanted to ask is.. Is it possible to dual boot these two distros?
The two distros mentioned, I have installed in the past separately but never dual booted them.. I don't know how. I saw youtube videos on dual booting but they're all different distros OR dual booting with Windows. I don't have Windows on this machine, which is why I want Zorin and Lakka.
My laptop is a Lenovo Ideapad 310, with an AMD A10-9600P APU, 8gb Ram. 512mb GPU built-in.
If this is possible, I want to try and put in a boot menu loading screen also.. if it's possible.
Thanks.
If there's any other information you need, let me know.
I have an old laptop (Lenovo Ideapad 310) that I want to re-purpose into a normal Linux machine and a retro gaming rig. I've been looking around and grown quite fond of two distros, Zorin OS and Lakka. Zorin OS looks very similar to Windows 10, which is ideal. Lakka is an all-in-one retro gaming platform which is also ideal, no need to use separate emulations to play games.
The question I wanted to ask is.. Is it possible to dual boot these two distros?
The two distros mentioned, I have installed in the past separately but never dual booted them.. I don't know how. I saw youtube videos on dual booting but they're all different distros OR dual booting with Windows. I don't have Windows on this machine, which is why I want Zorin and Lakka.
My laptop is a Lenovo Ideapad 310, with an AMD A10-9600P APU, 8gb Ram. 512mb GPU built-in.
If this is possible, I want to try and put in a boot menu loading screen also.. if it's possible.
Thanks.
If there's any other information you need, let me know.
@lrn you can't install on F: only. The installation will erase the whole drive. Recalbox is an Operating System, which creates its own partitions. That's why you can't install it in an existing partition. 1.511mb lakka installed. 2.29gb for ROMs. But after making new partition lakka doesn't work properly as before,it can't save configuration and can't access PC's HDD or neither the other partition of pendrive. It would be really nice if I can install lakka and store ROMs on the same pendrive,so I can plug and play anywhere,SO CONVENIENT.
- To install Lakka on a PC, you’ll need a few things: A Mac or PC to download Lakka and create the USB thumb drive installer. An old PC (or other device listed above) that you don’t mind dedicating as your Lakka console. Installing Lakka means installing it as the OS for the system.
- Install Lakka to the SD card Windows. ###Download Windows image flasher utility. On Windows, you will need a graphical tool to flash Lakka to your SD card. This tool is called Win32DiskImager and is free. Download Win32DiskImager. Setup Windows image flasher utility. Determine your SD card drive. Open your File Manager, and plug your SD card.
It is necessary to access the Lakka filesystem in order to accomplish tasks such as adding ROMs or BIOSes. Access to the filesystem also makes it possible to content like screenshots or savefiles from Lakka. There are two overall approaches to gaining access to the Lakka filesystem:
- Network access
- Attaching the Lakka drive to another system
Lakka can also be configured to use ROMs that are served from a NAS for users who are comfortable working in a Linux shell environment.
Filesystem layout
The editable portions of the Lakka system can be found in the following folders. Note that these the only folders which are made accessible via SAMBA – accessing other areas of the filesystem requires a different approach.
- roms - ROMs, films, music, and other content
- savefiles
- savestates - ‘quicksave’ states, as opposed to savefiles
- screenshots
- shaders - to override shaders
- system - to store BIOSes
- update - copy update files here to update Lakka
- playlists - to access the playlists
- joypad - joypad autoconfiguration profiles which are specific to your Lakka system
- thumbnails - the place where game thumbnails are stored
Transferring files via a network connection
File transfer via Samba
Samba is a service that you can enable in Settings->Services which allows other computers on the local network to transfer files to Lakka via the CIFS/SMB protocol. Only the most important folders are accessible via Samba.
Windows, OS X, and most Linux distributions should be able to navigate directly to Lakka’s Samba share by entering
lakka
into their file browser. If you cannot reach the Lakka system by name, it may be possible to reach it by IP. Once you have determined Lakka’s IP, enter that address in the file browser as with the Lakka name earlier, such as FULL.IP.ADDRESS.HERE
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File transfer via SCP
This method requires that SSH be enabled in Lakka, but it is faster than SAMBA. It will also require that you have and be familiar with operating SCP-enabled file transfer software or an SSH client capable of managing SCP file transfers.
You may be able to connect to Lakka via the name “lakka” in your SCP client. If not, you will need to find the IP of your Lakka box.The credentials for SCP are the same as for SSH: username root and password root.
SCP on Linux and Mac OS X hosts
In a terminal, copy the files over network using the scp command:
SCP on Windows hosts
Download the free software FileZilla or WinSCP, and connect to Lakka using the SCP protocol (port 22). They will expose the directories of Lakka, you can transfer files by dragging and dropping.
Direct drive access
This method consists of mounting the SD card, flash drive, or hard drive where Lakka is installed on a host workstation running Windows, Linux, or OS X. It is not convenient if you have installed Lakka on a device with internal storage, since you would have to connect the drive to another PC. But it works well for ARM boards, where the storage media is an SD card most of the time.
Direct drive access on a Linux host
If you’re on Linux, you can mount the second partition of your SD card/USB pendrive, and access the files on this partition. This way, you don’t need network connection, and you can access all files on your drive, including RetroArch configuration files located in
.config/retroarch/
.Direct drive access on a Windows host
Accessing
ext4
partitions from windows is not supported natively but you can install a driver.Direct drive access on an OS X host
Mac OS X does not allow users to mount ext4 partitions natively. Paragon’s ExtFS driver is paid software. OSXFuse is free software. We have not tested either of these yet.
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Using an external USB drive
Lakka offers the possibility to store your ROMs on an external USB drive.
Your USB drive must be formatted as FAT, NTFS or ext2/3/4. Store some ROMs on it, and plug it in your Lakka Box. The partition will be mounted automatically in a new folder under
/storage/roms/
, and your ROMs will appear in the menu. Please note that installing Lakka itself to an external USB hard drive is also an option.How To Install Lakka Os
Note: If you are using Lakka for PC in live USB mode, you should be able to access the hard drives of the host computer.