RetroPie Installation Log [Raspberry Pi]

1. Download RetroPie SD card image for Raspberry Pi 2

RetroPie SD card image is download here.

user@user:~/Downloads$ ls
retropie-v3.4-rpi2.img.gz

Extract downloaded file.

user@user:~/Downloads$ gzip -d retropie-v3.4-rpi2.img.gz 

user@user:~/Downloads$  ls 

retropie-v3.4-rpi2.img

2. Copy Image to SD card

To install RetroPie SD card image on your MicroSD card, you can use dd command.
Before the dd command, you need to find SD card location.

user@user:~/Downloads$ df -h
Filesystem         Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdf1           29G   44M   27G   1% /media/user/2d9c8a57

In my case, SD card is located in /dev/sdf.

Now, you can use dd command.

Here is the dd command log.

user@user:~/Downloads$ sudo dd bs=4M if=retropie-v3.4-rpi2.img of=/dev/sdf

619+1 records in
619+1 records out
2600000000 bytes (2.6 GB) copied, 117.633 s, 22.1 MB/s

user@user:~/Downloads$ sync

user@user:~/Downloads$ umount /dev/sdf

3. Insert SD card to Raspberry Pi

If the installation was successful this screen appears.

And this screen appears.

4. Controller configurations

When you first boot up you will be welcomed with the following screen.

Hold down any button on your keyboard or gamepad and the name will appear at the bottom and then open up into a configuration menu. 

If you wish to configure more than one controller, you can do so from the start menu of emulationstation. More details on maual controller configurations see this page.

when you have completed the setup. You can see this screen.

5. Expand file system

This allows your SD card to use all its storage rather than the small partition it was released with.

 Go to the RetroPie Menu

Select raspberry Pi configuration tool raspi-config

It will open up into the following. Choose 1. Expand Filesystem

You will get this message.

And reboot your Raspberry Pi.

6. Configuring Wifi

 Go to the RetroPie Menu

Select CONFIGURE WIFI.

It will open up into the following.

Select Connect to WiFi network, and configuring wifi.

Bibliography

[1] RetroPie-Setup : “retropie”  https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/First-Installation (2016.01.29)