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Don't allow user to install *only* Data Partition #103

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lurch opened this issue Sep 27, 2013 · 0 comments · May be fixed by #306
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Don't allow user to install *only* Data Partition #103

lurch opened this issue Sep 27, 2013 · 0 comments · May be fixed by #306
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lurch commented Sep 27, 2013

Another case like #102 where special-case code is required...

Currently in the NOOBS Recovery GUI, it's possible to select just the Data Partition and then install that as the single OS - which obviously doesn't make any sense ;)
IMHO the Install button should remain disabled if you only have the Data Partition selected, and should only become enabled when you have at least one "real" OS installed.

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Hmmm, rather than special-casing on just the "Data Partition" each time, maybe it'd make more sense to have a generic mechanism, e.g. by adding a "data_partitions_only: true" property (or similar) to the JSON files?

NicoHood added a commit to NicoHood/noobs that referenced this issue Feb 6, 2016
- If the item has "data partition" in it, do not allow it to be
  installed alone. Closes raspberrypi#103
- If the first partition is not a FAT partition, treat it as
  not bootable. Do not show it in the boot menu, and do not
  write config.txt to it. Closes raspberrypi#102

Adapted from 8430591
raspberrypi@8430591#diff-7bd3a48ac1bcbb236a941bd9c1b24587
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