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Raspberry Pi Desktop for PC and Mac • Installation step failed: failing step is: install system

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I am trying to install Raspberry Pi Desktop for PC and MAC on an old laptop (sony vaio 2009)
Note that I am using an archive version (Buster 2021-07-01) because there are a couple of programs I am exploring that will not work on Bullseye or later versions of PiOS

I keep getting a failed installation on the Install system step.
When i try the step again I get "the target file contains files from a past installation... if you proceed existing files may be overwritten

I have tried:
Downloading and reburning the image. I am using an USB SD card reader not a usb stick
Completely formatting the HD to remove old files and trying installation from start.
On choice of repeating the step I'v tried both Normal and Live installation.

What am I missing?
Could it be that the laptop was originally 64bit system and the RPI is based on 32bit? Although I have read that 64 bit processors are usually compatible with 32 bit OS.

I am fairly new to this and my knowledge is quite patchy.

Statistics: Posted by kajan001 — Fri Feb 02, 2024 9:09 am



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