On 20/03/2018 04:54, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 02:30:37 +0000 (UTC), bob prohaska:
>> At this point the pi account is locked on my machine, will that interfere
>> with upgrading? Seemed to me that the pi account is rather integral to
>> the system, sort of like root on *bsd.
>
>  The "sudo" command is used to temporarily elevate the account you are
> logged in as to run "root" commands.
>
>  Though it may be easier to just create a tar archive of /home, (s)ftp
> that archive to your "mainframe", create a new SD card with recent NOOBS
> image, install that and go through the NOOBS configuration stuff, (s)ftp
> the tar archive to the new Raspbian, and untar it over the default /home of
> the new SD card.

That's exactly what he said in the part you cut.

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