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@@ -67,7 +67,10 @@ curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Abdess/retrobios/main/install.sh \
```
`--dest` is the BIOS folder itself: on a card, `retroarch/cores/system` for
RetroArch on Switch, `RetroArch/system` on Android.
RetroArch on Switch, `RetroArch/system` on Android. The root of a handheld's
card works too when the installer knows that card (muOS, Onion, spruceOS,
KNULLI, ROCKNIX and the MinUI family, see
[Platform detection](#platform-detection)): the files go where its system reads.
PowerShell needs another form. `iex` takes the script text as its own argument,
so anything appended to `irm ... | iex` is read as an argument to `iex` and
@@ -454,6 +457,9 @@ python install.py --from ~/Downloads --from /media/me/backup
python install.py --check --from /media/me/STOCK
```
The first line names the root of the muOS card, the one holding `MUOS`: the
files go to `MUOS/bios` on it, where muOS reads them, and the run says so.
Every file is recognised by its contents, never by its name:
`PSX BIOS (USA).bin` in a subfolder lands as `scph5501.bin` when it holds those
bytes, and a file of the right name with other bytes (an empty file left by a
@@ -749,6 +755,26 @@ family writes the release name as the first line of `.system/version.txt` at
the card root (`MinUI-`, `NextUI-`, `MyMinUI-`), and that line names the file
list.
A card that holds a system's own files is read the same way, without
`--platform` or with the one that names its list, by the rules the table above
gives for the device, below the card's root instead of its mount point:
| On the card | System | Files go to |
|-------------|--------|-------------|
| `MUOS/` | muOS | `MUOS/bios`, RetroArch's list |
| `.tmp_update/onionVersion/version.txt` | Onion | `BIOS`, RetroArch's list |
| `spruce/` | spruceOS | `BIOS`, RetroArch's list |
| `System/usr/trimui/crossmix-version.txt` | CrossMix-OS | `BIOS`, RetroArch's list |
| `.allium/` | Allium | `BIOS`, RetroArch's list |
| `Koriki/version.txt` | Koriki | `BIOS`, RetroArch's list |
| `system/batocera.conf` with `system.hostname=KNULLI`, as KNULLI's first boot writes its share | KNULLI | `bios`, KNULLI's list |
| `.config/system/configs/system.cfg` with `root.password=rocknix`, as ROCKNIX's first boot writes its storage | ROCKNIX | `roms/bios`, ROCKNIX's list |
The full screen lists such a card on its first screen ("muOS SD card (E:\)").
Named by its system (`--platform muos`, `--platform onion`), a `--dest` that
is neither such a card nor its BIOS folder is refused, with the folder that
system reads.
Desktop installs are read from their own configuration, and several can be
found on one machine.
@@ -1173,6 +1199,10 @@ fields, the installer refuses to narrow rather than install everything.
| `130` | stopped with Ctrl+C, or with `q`, Ctrl+C or Ctrl+D at a question. Run the same command again to carry on |
| `141` | the output was piped to a reader that closed early (`--list-platforms \| head`) |
The full screen ended by SIGTERM (Start+Select on a handheld) before any
install exits `143`. During an install it stops the install first, and exits
`130`.
`install.ps1` passes the installer's code on unchanged: run as a file it exits
with it, run through `irm \| iex` it sets `$LASTEXITCODE` (an `exit` there
would close the PowerShell window). It declares no parameter of its own, so