Be VERY careful to use the correct device name, and be sure to use the whole device, not one of the partitions (i.e. of= refers to the output file, and should be set equal to the device name of your SD card, which in this case is sdb. if= points towards the input file, and should be set equal to your Raspbian image file. You must preface the command with sudo, which specifies that we want to run the command as root. BE VERY CAREFUL WHEN USING dd! It has been nicknamed "disk destroyer" because of the potential to overwrite entire devices, including your computer's harddrive.īelow you can see the syntax of our dd command. Once the partitions are unmounted we can write the disk image to the micro-SD card using the dd command. For this procedure we actually need to unmount these partitions, which we can do using the umount command as shown below. You can also see that Ubuntu has already mounted both partitions for me. In the image above you can see that the SD card has been named sdb, and has two partitions named sdb1 and sdb2. If you are comfortable using the Linux command line, you may find you only need a Linux terminal for many projects, in which case you can use the "Raspbian Lite" disk image. If you are new to Linux, or don't know what you need then I suggest starting with the desktop version. Select "Raspbian with Desktop" if you are looking for a graphical interface (GUI) somewhat similar to Windows.
You can download the Raspbian disk image from.
FINAL BURN ALPHA ROMS FOR RASPBERRY PI INSTALL
This tutorial utilizes Raspbian, a Debian-based flavor of Linux specifically designed for the Raspberry Pi, but the same steps can be used to install any operating system that will work with the Pi's hardware.
FINAL BURN ALPHA ROMS FOR RASPBERRY PI HOW TO
Below I will outline how to do this simple procedure using either Windows or Linux.īurning an SD Card for a Raspberry Pi Using Windowsįirst you need to download the operating system.
The first step in setting up a Raspberry Pi is to burn the operating system disk image to the SD card. I prefer to use a class 10 card with a minimum of 16 Gigabytes, although slower cards with as little as 8GB will suffice (4GB minimum for Raspbian Lite).
The Raspberry Pi uses a micro-SD card as its hard drive.