Adding roms without network connection?

Libretro Lakka
#1

Is there any way to add roms without connecting my laptop to an Ethernet cable and to my modem? Like with an SD card or something? It’s a real pain if I have to do this through my network.

Thanks! Andrew

#2

Hey andrew,

when u using windows, u can use for example the program FileZilla. So u can get there over ssh/ftp to ur USB Stick.

I use this ways on my zbox. I installed on my box on ssd openelec and on my USB Stick i have lakka.

My way:

  1. IP of my zbox

  2. Put the IP in FileZilla

  3. Password and username for lakka: pass: root user: root (Ur USB Stick must be in ur box what u use and must run live or installed)

  4. Connect

So u have the entry to ur USB or whatever u use.

#3

Hi andrew,

Yes, the second partition of the SD card is an “ext4” filesystems. There are 2 or 3 sotfwares on windows, available freely, to read and write files on those partition.

If you get any success with us, please let us know, we need to document that process for all users (but we don’t have any windows).

#4

[QUOTE=Kivutar;22695]Hi andrew,

Yes, the second partition of the SD card is an “ext4” filesystems. There are 2 or 3 sotfwares on windows, available freely, to read and write files on those partition.

If you get any success with us, please let us know, we need to document that process for all users (but we don’t have any windows).[/QUOTE] Could you show me one of these programs? I will probably use a USB stick.

#5

Sure http://www.howtogeek.com/112888/3-ways-to-access-your-linux-partitions-from-windows/

#6

i tried a few linux partition softwares like Ext2fsd and Paragon ExtFs in windows and they all seem to read and write files into the sd card…however if done so then the lakka os fails and becomes weird…

maybe there are softwares that dont let this happen…but for me it certainly was a negative experience…so i recommend using a USB linux to do the job instead…

#7

Ah, good to know jenqui.

#8

If your using a stick for the LAKKA OS its fairly easy. Put the stick in a linux machine and it should mount the partitions automatically then you can just drag and drop your files into the roms folder. If your PC isnt Linux and has a CD drive you could burn a standalone linux boot disk, boot off that so you are in a linux environment, insert the stick and then copy the files.

Regards,

Keith.

#9

I think that the ext4 driver for PC and Mac is the way to go.

Maybe we should create a FAT partition to store roms…