MiSTer FPGA Forum

Can I set up and update the MiSTer without connecting it to the internet and without running anything on my separate Linux system besides utilities I'm already familiar with?

I've read this:

https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_Mi ... etup-Guide

but it seems to involve either connecting the MiSTer to the internet or running a special script on another system, neither of which I want to do.

I'm hoping I can simply copy the latest build to an SD card and insert that into the MiSTer to have things working and up to date.

AFAIK There isn't a pre-built Mister set up you can simply copy to your SDCard, I'm guessing that's what you're getting at. You'll need to either set up the SDCard manually - following the guide - or use mr fusion.

Any tips for flashing the Mr Fusion image to an SD card on Linux? Is there a good dd command for that?

Is wifi built in to the board or should I attach a USB dongle?

No wifi on the DE10

Instructions for Mr Fusion

https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/mr-fusion

The MiSTer needs a specific partition layout to work. One of the partitions must be of type a2, and contain the bootloader (u-boot) stored as raw sectors, i.e. dd if=u-boot.img of=/dev/<device name for that partition>. The default size is 1M. The rest of the SD card can be partitioned as you prefer, but keep in mind that u-boot only supports exFAT, so you need at least one exFAT partition.

On the exFAT partition, you need to have a linux/ subdirectory with the contents copied from the image. Copying everything from https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Distribution_MiSTer should work.

If you don't want to connect the MiSTer to the internet (like me), you will have to update everything manually (like I do).